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ESLAVA, Luis. The developmental state: independence, dependency and the history of the South. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2019, n.43, pp.25-65. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n43.03.

In this article, I examine the genesis and importance of the developmental state for our thinking about the period of decolonization -which took place between the mid-1950s to the 1970s- and, more generally, the history of the global order. Using Latin America's much earlier experience of European colonialism, together with the challenges later posed to this region by independence, I demonstrate how the developmental state that emerged there gradually came to define the outer limits of what was thinkable and doable in the rest of the postcolonial world. During the second half of the twentieth century, in particular, it became clear that the developmental state was a very difficult beast to harness in the interests of Southern populations, both in Latin America and beyond. Too much a part of the larger project of modernity, too close to the institutional machinery of the old colonial powers and too dependent to the 'advanced' economies, the developmental state promised much yet compromised more at every turn. This is a history, that continues to mark the South, and increasingly those 'southern' parts of the Global North.

Palavras-chave : International Law; developmental state; development; history; decolonization; imperialism; neocolonialism; Global South.

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