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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio +2 more
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The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Taxation - Belgian Report
, 2017 peer reviewedThe tax aspects of bilateral investment treaties, which, in most cases, provide the investor with the unique opportunity to directly initiate an international dispute settlement process – also known as investor-state dispute settlement – are
Traversa, Edoardo, Richelle, Isabelle
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Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
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Regional Trade Agreements and International R&D Spillovers: Implications for Developing Countries
The Developing Economies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We provide new evidence on heterogeneous international research and development (R&D) spillovers from partners of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and non‐partners using a sample of 45 economies in the period 1995–2017. We construct separate R&D stocks for RTA partners and non‐partners and find that spillovers from RTA partners are stronger ...
Yukiko Sawada, Rinki Ito, Naoto Jinji
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Own interest and foreign need: Are bilateral investment treaty programmes similar to aid allocation? [PDF]
Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important legal mechanism for the encouragement of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries.
Eric Neumayer
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The Political Legitimacy of Multilevel Crisis Governance: The EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract European‐wide crises have required extraordinary responses from the EU and its member states that affected its governance and legal framework as well as its legitimacy. The recent COVID‐19 pandemic spread across borders and involved multiple levels of government to mitigate its socio‐economic impact and facilitate a swift recovery.
Marius Guderjan, Mario Kölling
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States.
Christian Freudlsperger, Lucas Schramm
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In defense of bilateral investment treaties
Arbitration International, 2015 Anglo-Iranian Oil Co, United Kingdom v Iran , Judgment, Jurisdiction, ICGJ 188 (ICJ 1952) Permanent sovereignty over natural resources, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII) (1962)Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3281 (XXIX) (1974)(ICSID) Convention on the Settlement of ...
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to MENA Region: Does One .Best. Fit All? [PDF]
The paper revisits the policy debate on institutional reform approaches to property rights protection and empirically examines it in the context of FDI flows to the Middle East and Northern Africa region (MENA).Using panel data on 11 MENA countries for ...
Mina, Wasseem Michel
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