PAPER WITHDRAWN--Towards a Legal Theory of the Post-Developmental State.

Two distinct but related themes pervade discussions on globalization, and the restructuring of the State. There is on the one hand the nationalist anxiety about the erosion of the national space to pursue social policies. On the other hand there is the cosmopolitan excitement about new governance, soft regulation and the promise of democratic experimentalism. This paper attempts to rationally vindicate nationalist anxiety through a concrete, historical/structural analysis of the transformations in the post-colonial State and its sovereign power.I focus on role of the state in the development process. I will make three arguments. First, nationalist anxiety fails to capture the specificities of the post-colonial development state. Second, the experience of states to go beyond "chastened neo-liberalism" no longer fits any one development model. Ruling elites and policy makers eclectically combine elements from competing development models. Their eclecticism is the effect of disenchantment with the policy determinism within the different development models. Third, in this disenchanted, post-development policy landscape, critical evaluation of the real effects of development policies, and the relative success and failure of any particular country's experience, can be best conducted holistically focusing on how these policies work with and against each other. This can be best done from the perspective of the state and its normative order as a whole.I will develop these arguments by exploring, in the context of Egypt, the structural relations linking regulation of foreign investment, "Export Processing Zones," transformations in state bureaucracy, informality, and the state of emergency. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]