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Author:   Jennifer Lander
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367076641

ISBN 10:   0367076640
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   13 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Table of Contents Preface Part I: Theory and Summary of the Book Transnational Law, State Transformation and Global Markets: Economic Development and Material Constitutional Change Decoding ""Development"": A Socio-Legal Approach Development Code-Cracking: The Conceptual Origin Story of the Book Parts of a Whole: State, Law and Market from Material Constitutional Perspective Seeking Reward and Mitigating Risk: The Changing Dynamics of ""Development"" in the Global Economy Development as State Modernisation Development as Marketisation Building Markets, Building States: Understanding the Contemporary Paradigm Contextualising Extractive Development Conclusion Introduction to the Case Study Constituting a Resource Frontier in Outer Mongolia Chapter Outline A Note on Research Methods Part II: The Case Study State, Law and Economy in Mongolia: An Historical Overview Introduction: Tracing Material Constitutional Change over Time State-Economic Relations Prior to the National State: An Overview of the Mongol Aristocratic-Pastoral Order (Twelfth – Twentieth Centuries) Socio-Political Constitution of the Early Mongol State Sustaining the Aristocratic State: Embedded Economy and Customary Norms Distinguishing the Economic from the Political: State Socialism, National Industrialisation and Regional Integration in the Soviet Union (1924-1990) A Shifting Situation: New Geopolitical Challenges in the Early Twentieth Century Socialist Constitutionalism: New Institutions and Revolutionary Legality for the Mongol People’s Republic Introducing ""Economic Development"" into Mongol Steppe Society Democratising the Government, Depoliticising the Economy? The Post-Socialist Mongolian State (Re)constitutionalisation Part I: A New Blueprint for Accumulation (Re)constitutionalisation Part II: A New Political-Legal Regime Mongolia as a Model Market Democracy? Conclusion See-Saws of Instability: Mongolia’s Mining Regime from 1994-2014 Introduction 1994-2002: Making a Minerals Market on the ""Final Frontier"" 2002-2006: Re-evaluating the State-Market Balance 2006-2009: State-Market Compromise and the Oyu Tolgoi Investment Agreement 2009-2013: Optimism and Entanglement 2014: Facing the Crisis of Transnational Capital and Confidence Conclusion After the Crisis: Strategies for Stabilisation within the State Introduction Unstable Institutions at the Centre and the Periphery: Curtailing Political Risk within the State for Foreign Investment Conflict at the Core: Parliament, Politicians and ""Resource Nationalism"" Conflict at the Periphery: Local Governments, Rent-Seeking and Corruption Stabilisation Mechanisms: Blurring Public-Private Boundaries and Strengthening Executive Authority in the Mining Regime Blurring the Public-Private Divide at the Central and Sub-National Scales Deepening Executive Power within Central and Sub-National Administrations Conclusion Redefining Resistance: Strategies for Stabilisation in State-Society Relations Introduction Organised Civil Society in Mongolia: An Overview The Law and Politics of Exclusion in the Making of a ""Civil"" Society: Limiting Political Risk from Environmental Activists The Emergence of Environmental Activism around Mining in Mongolia Stabilisation Mechanism I: Excluding Dissent through Institutional Disassociation and State Criminalisation Stabilisation Mechanism II: Inclusion Through Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue, Consensus Building and the Narrative of ""Shared Responsibility"" Governing Political Risk for Mining Projects through the Norms and Mechanisms of Corporate Social Responsibility: Tracing a Transnational Normative Agenda Institutionalising Multi-Stakeholder Norms and Practices in Mongolia’s Mining Regime: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Integrated Mineral Resource Initiative Non-State Dispute Resolution and Conflict Mediation: The Role of the International Finance Corporation in the South Gobi Summary of Case Studies Conclusion Part III: Theoretical Reflections Transnational Legal Ordering and State Transformation in Mongolia: Summarising the Case Study Introduction Transnational Legal Ordering Stabilising Mongolia’s Investment Environment as a Process of Transnational Legal Ordering Substantive Legal Reform Changes in the Boundary between the State and the Market, and other Forms of Social Ordering Changes in the Institutional Architecture of the State Enhancement of Professional Expertise and its Role in Governance Change in Associational Patterns Instituted through Transnational Mechanisms of Accountability with Accompanying Normative Frames Summary The Legal and Political Costs of Transnational Legal Ordering in Mongolia’s Mining Regime ""Who Cares about Politics?"" Setting out the Significance of Transnational Legal Ordering for Democratic Politics in Mongolia A New Rule for the Rule of Law? Stability as the new Grundnorm for Mining Law and Policy ‘It is Our Destiny to Work with Our Neighbours’: From Geo-Politics to Geo-Economics The Law of Unintended Consequences: Perils in New Patterns of State Transformation Conclusion Reflecting on Material Constitutional Change in Mongolia Seeing the Forest for the Trees"

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Jennifer Lander is a Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University, UK

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