Three futures of the world: ‘Armageddon’, ‘Brazilianization’ or ‘regulatory hegemony’

Abstract

The Foundations of European Transnational Private Law is at first glance a book about the ‘Brussels effect’. While this is an important and relevant topic, the book offers far more than that. Rather it offers a sometimes explicit and sometimes implicit vision of global society. A vision of where global society is heading and not least of where global society should be heading. A vision hidden under the ambition to develop the foundations of a new concept of transnational private law rooted in European legal traditions and practices.