Plunder examines the dark side of the Rule of Law and explores how it has been used as a powerful political weapon by Western countries in order to legitimize plunder – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones.
- Challenges traditionally held beliefs in the sanctity of the Rule of Law by exposing its dark side
- Examines the Rule of Law's relationship with 'plunder' – the practice of violent extraction by stronger political actors victimizing weaker ones – in the service of Western cultural and economic domination
- Provides global examples of plunder: of oil in Iraq; of ideas in the form of Western patents and intellectual property rights imposed on weaker peoples; and of liberty in the United States
- Dares to ask the paradoxical question – is the Rule of Law itself illegal?
Preface.
Introduction.
1. Plunder and The Rule of Law.
An Anatomy of Plunder.
Plunder, Hegemony, and Positional Superiority.
Law, Plunder, and European Expansionism.
Institutionalizing Plunder: The Colonial Relationship and the Imperial Project.
A Story of Continuity: Constructing the Empire of Law (lessness).
2. Neo-liberalism: Economic Engine of Plunder.
The Argentinean Bonanza.
Neo-Liberalism: An Economic Theory of Simplification and a Spectacular Project.
Structural Adjustment Programs and the Comprehensive Development Framework.
Development Frameworks, Plunder, and the Rule of Law.
3. Before Neo-Liberalism: a Story of Western Plunder.
The European Roots of Colonial Plunder.
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