Rechtsenklaven

Indiens Recht der Sonderwirtschaftszonen

by Maxim Bonnemann

Book cover: Rechtsenklaven

Extent: 220 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Business & Economics, Philosophy, Social Sciences 

Series: Jus Internationale et Europaeum

Series volume number: 198

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(September 2023)

ISBN: 9783161620492

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $93.00

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The number of special economic zones around the globe has exploded, particularly in the Global South. They promise jobs, economic growth, and even a revolution of governance structures. Bonnemann embeds the triumph of the special economic zone within development economics and uses the example of India to demonstrate the central role of law.


The number of special economic zones around the globe has exploded, particularly in the Global South. As “islands of modernity”, they promise jobs, economic growth, and even a revolution of governance structures. Maxim Bonnemann embeds the triumph of the special economic zone within a particular discourse in development economics and uses the example of India to demonstrate the central role of the law. While India’s special economic zones were initially tainted with a vague promise of development, their rapid spread quickly led to serious distributive and institutional conflicts, in which different visions of development collided. These conflicts, the author argues, have been both fuelled and defused by the ambivalence of postcolonial constitutionalism in India. For constitutionalism in India not only bears the long shadow of colonialism, but also the prospect of a profound democratic and social transformation.

  • By (author) Maxim Bonnemann