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This chapter presents the background and framework of the book. It defines key terms, concepts and phenomena relating to the discussions in this volume, such as crisis, globalisation, integration, disintegration, harmonisation, convergence and legal transplants.

Since there is no widely-accepted, consensual definition of these terms, it is important to provide definitions at the beginning of this book so that key concepts and expressions are not misunderstood.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cambridge Dictionary (2021).

  2. 2.

    Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2021).

  3. 3.

    Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries (2021).

  4. 4.

    Calhoun and Derlugian (2011).

  5. 5.

    White and Nandedkar (2021).

  6. 6.

    Hay (1996).

  7. 7.

    Mirowski (2013).

  8. 8.

    Walby (2015), pp. 2–7.

  9. 9.

    Ibid, p. 14.

  10. 10.

    The most famous proponent of the double movement phenomenon was Karl Polanyi: Polanyi (1944).

  11. 11.

    Schumpeter (1976), pp. 82–83.

  12. 12.

    Walby (2015), pp. 31–33; Gladwell (2015).

  13. 13.

    Kuhn (1962).

  14. 14.

    External threats form part of disaster studies analysis: see Gilbert (1998).

  15. 15.

    Coase (1988).

  16. 16.

    Rhinard (2019), p. 2.

  17. 17.

    Joerges and Neyer (2006).

  18. 18.

    Rhinard (2019), p. 11.

  19. 19.

    Boin et al. (2016), pp. 43–44.

  20. 20.

    Gronvall (2001).

  21. 21.

    Kamkhaji and Radaelli (2017).

  22. 22.

    Boin et al. (2013).

  23. 23.

    Rhinard (2019), p. 627.

  24. 24.

    Boin et al. (2016).

  25. 25.

    Bickerton et al. (2014).

  26. 26.

    Ripoll-Servent (2017).

  27. 27.

    Weatherill (2016), p. 418.

  28. 28.

    Davies (2004), pp. 160–161.

  29. 29.

    Obstfeld (2021), p. 691; Bonifai et al. (2022), p. 4.

  30. 30.

    Goldstein (2022), p. 9; Mansfield and Pevehouse (2022), pp. 3–6.

  31. 31.

    Voeten (2022), pp. 2–4.

  32. 32.

    The Cambridge Dictionary.

  33. 33.

    Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

  34. 34.

    Rodrik (2011).

  35. 35.

    Walter (2020).

  36. 36.

    Hobolt and de Vries (2016); Kuo and Naoi (2015).

  37. 37.

    Tweet from 24 June 2016.

  38. 38.

    The Economist, 2 July 2016.

  39. 39.

    Hobolt (2016); Blyth (2016).

  40. 40.

    Ikenberry (2018); Rodrik (2017).

  41. 41.

    Antokolskaia (2006), pp. 21–23.

  42. 42.

    Lohse (2011), p. 291.

  43. 43.

    Platsas (2017), p. 17.

  44. 44.

    For example, by UNCITRAL.

  45. 45.

    Siems (2018), pp. 228–230.

  46. 46.

    Nelken (2002), pp. 26–27.

  47. 47.

    Gilson (2004), pp. 132–137; Gilson (2001), pp. 332–336.

  48. 48.

    Gilson (2004), pp. 137–140; Gilson (2001), pp. 337–339.

  49. 49.

    See the discussion in Barnard and Deakin (2002).

  50. 50.

    Watson (1993), p. 21.

  51. 51.

    See Kahn-Freund (1974), p. 27 and Friedman (2001), p. 95.

  52. 52.

    Legrand (2001), p. 57.

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Cabrelli, D., Ghio, E. (2024). Terminology. In: Ghio, E., Perlingeiro, R. (eds) Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_2

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