PLUNDER: WHEN THE RULE OF LAW IS ILLEGAL by UGO MATTEI AND LAURA NADER
{Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 283 pp., £50,00 (hbk), £19.99 (pbk))
How should one see the development of the international order and the global economy? Should we call contemporary developments 'progress' or 'regress' ? Attempting to answer such questions, a legal scholar and a legal anthropologist have written a book on the current state of world order. Along the lines of critical scholarship, the authors urge us to shift our paradigms, re-orient our gaze, and invert our perspectives: what we see on the surface is neither the full story nor the true story. [...]