Private Power and Global Authority

Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy

Bibliographic Data

ID7270612
AuthorsAdam Harmes (0000-0002-1531-3574, Western University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume38
Issue1
Pages259-260
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423905400104
OpenAlexW2133483399
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy, A. Claire Cutler, Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 306 In Private Power and Global Authority , Claire Cutler presents a theoretically rich and historically detailed account of the interrelationship between transnational merchant law and broader patterns of restructuring in the global political economy. More specifically, she draws upon an historical materialist framework to demonstrate how “fundamental transformations in global power and authority are enhancing the significance of the private sphere in both the creation and enforcement of international commercial law” (1). In doing so, Cutler reveals the power relations and political implications inherent to this seemingly functional realm. At the same time, she looks through the other end of the telescope to show the broadly constitutive role that transnational merchant law has played in the transformation and legitimation of the emerging neoliberal order. In this sense, the changes that Cutler identifies in transnational merchant law both reflect, and help to constitute, broader changes in the global political economy

Comparative law · Law and economics · Legitimation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Realm · Sociology · International Arbitration and Investment Law · Law

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