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Power Transition and Pragmatic Adaptation: Iran's Strategic Approach to China, Russia and the GCC
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how Iranian strategic thinkers conceptualise the country's ‘Look East’ policy (i.e., relations with China and Russia) and the GCC states. Using thematic qualitative content analysis of approximately 70 documents from Iranian state official, advisory and academic institutions (2015–2025), it reveals that Iran's eastward ...
Sara Bazoobandi
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Social and Environmental Protection in Bilateral Investment Treaties: Foreign Investors’ Perspective
Indonesia Law Review, 2011 The limit of host states’ right to regulate foreign investment within their jurisdiction has been the main, yet unresolved issues in international investment law. This makes it more difficult, given the global structure of investment law that consists of
M. Ajisatria Suleiman
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Business Environment in Developing Countries: the Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties [PDF]
Bilateral Investment Treaty’s effects on FDI and the domestic business environment remain unexplored despite the proliferation of treaties over the past several years.
Jennifer Tobin, Susan Rose-Ackerman
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Philip Morris lawsuits against Australia and Uruguay in the early 2010s highlighted the need to reform international investment agreement (IIA) practices to ensure that governments do not give up their regulatory autonomy for foreign investment. We undertook a policy analysis to reveal how interests, ideas and institutions shaped reform in
Dori Patay +3 more
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Asymmetric FDI and Tax-Treaty Bargaining: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
Tax treaties are often viewed as a mechanism for eliminating tax competition, however this approach ignores the need for bargaining over the treaty?s terms. This paper focuses on how bargaining can affect the withholding taxes set under the treaty.
Richard Chisik, Ronald B. Davies
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Economic Impact of Investment Agreements [PDF]
, 2015 Based on a thorough analysis of theoretical arguments, this meta-analysis does not find a genuine empirical effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment after correcting for publication selection bias.Series: Department of ...
Bellak, Christian
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing significance of informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) in global politics necessitates a re‐evaluation of leadership dynamics. We develop a theory framework that enables us to explain why countries take on leadership roles in IIGOs, with a specific focus on climate politics.
Christin Heinz‐Fischer +1 more
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Multiple faces of preferential market access: their causes and consequences [PDF]
, 2017 This paper suggests an integrated approach to study selection into and consequences of five modes of preferential economic integration agreements (PEIAs): goods trade agreements (GTAs), services trade agreements (STAs), double taxation treaties (DTTs ...
Egger, Peter, Wamser, Georg
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Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo‐Pacific
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines New Zealand's perceptions of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as a like‐minded partner committed to the rule‐based international order, New Zealand respondents demonstrated limited understanding of the ...
Matthew Castle +4 more
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Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have proliferated over the past 50 years such that the number of pairs of countries with BITs is roughly as large as the number of country-pairs that belong to bilateral or regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs)
Jeffrey H. Bergstrand, Peter Egger
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