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A World of Struggle: How Power, Law and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy. By David Kennedy . Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 298. Index. $29.95, £24.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2017

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 197 - 202
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References

1 See also David Kennedy, The Dark Side of Virtue (2004).

2 Whittle, Kayla, David Kennedy on Remaking Our Technocratic World , Princeton Univ. Press Blog (Mar. 23, 2016)Google Scholar, at blog.press.princeton.edu/2016/03/23/david-kennedy-on-remaking-our-technocratic-world.

3 See also David Kennedy, Of War and Law (2006).

4 Kennedy, David, Lawfare and Warfare , in The Cambridge Companion to International Law 171 (Crawford, James & Koskenniemi, Martti eds., 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Owens, Robert, Judicial Decision-Making as Knowledge Work , 41 L. Soc. Inquiry 502 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Andrew Abbott, The System of Professions (1998); Bourdieu, Pierre, The Force of Law: Toward A Sociology of the Juridical Field , 38 Hastings L.J. 805 (1987)Google Scholar; Liu, Sida, The Legal Profession as a Social Process: A Theory on Lawyers and Globalization , 38 L. & Soc. Inquiry 670 (2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Yves Dezalay & Bryant Garth, The Internationalization of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States (2002); cf. Kennedy, A World of Struggle, at 10 (“Accounts of law's distributive role in struggle are few.”).

7 See, e.g., Stuart Scheingold, The Politics of Rights (1974); E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters (1975).

8 See, e.g., Dezalay & Garth, supra note 6.

9 See, e.g., Sally Engle Merry, The Seductions of Quantification (2016).

10 Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944); Barrington Moore, The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966); Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (1982).

11 On the Venice Commission, see De Visser, Maartje, A Critical Assessment of the Role of the Venice Commission in Processes of Domestic Constitutional Reform , 63 Am. J. Comp. L. 963 (2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 Cf. Richard McAdams, The Expressive Function of Law (2015).

13 See, e.g., John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser & Anna Hanson, Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War: The Legal Cynicism of Criminal Militarism (2015).

14 Randall Peerenboom, China Modernizes (2007); Alice Amsden, Asia's Next Giant: South Korea And Late Industrialization (1989).

15 Id.; cf. Kennedy, A World of Struggle, at 147 (characterizing it as neoliberal).

16 Sebastian Mallaby, The Cult of the Expert – and How It Collapsed, Guardian (Oct. 20, 2016), at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/20/alan-greenspan-cult-of-expert-and-how-it-collapsed.

17 Tamas Gyorfi, Against the New Constitutionalism 62–63 (2016) (quoting Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz, Polish Constitutional Drama: Of Courts, Democracy, Constitutional Shenanigans and Constitutional Self-Defense, Int'l J. Const. L. Blog (Dec. 6, 2015), at http://www.iconnectblog.com/2015/12/polish-constitutional-drama-of-courts-democracy-constitutional-shenanigans-and-constitutional-self-defense).

18 Jan-Werner Müller, What is Populism? (2016); Eric A. Posner, Can It Happen Here? Donald Trump and the Paradox of Populist Government (Chicago Public Law Working Papers #605), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2893251.