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Public and Private in International Investment Law: An Integrated Systems Approach [PDF]

, 2014
Members of the invisible college of international investment lawyers are engaged in a fierce battle over the conceptual foundations of their common legal enterprise.
Maupin, Julie A.
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
wiley   +1 more source

Positing for balancing: investment treaty rights and the rights of citizens [PDF]

, 2011
Substantive bilateral investment treaty (BIT) rules have the potential to undermine the rights to health, safety and the environment of the citizens of host States if stricter State regulations to protect these rights amount to regulatory expropriation ...
Ghouri, Ahmad Ali
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A China – US Bilateral Investment Treaty: A Template for a Multilateral Framework for Investment? [PDF]

, 2012
A bilateral investment treaty between China and the US would not only be of importance for the economic relations of the world's two largest economies, but could also become a template for a multilateral framework for investment.
Chen, Huiping, Sauvant, Karl P.
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
wiley   +1 more source

Corporations and the Uses of Law: International Investment Arbitration as a “Multilateral Legal Order"

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2011
This paper seeks to examine the claim, made by certain legal scholars, that international investment law, though based mainly on Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) is in fact a multilateral order that introduces principles of an emergent ...
Peter Muchlinski
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New Frontiers in EU Trade Policy: Moving Beyond Conventional Trade Agreements

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the rules‐based international trading system faces stagnation and increasing unilateralism, the European Union's trade policy must evolve beyond conventional free trade agreements (FTAs). This article examines recent trends in EU trade agreements, highlighting not only their expanded scope to include areas such as digital trade ...
Niall Moran
wiley   +1 more source

Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
wiley   +1 more source

Australia and the Path Not Taken: The Declining Independence and Influence of Middle Powers

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian foreign policy has famously been distinguished by the search for ‘great and powerful friends’. However, Australia's relationship with its current notional protector and key ally—the United States—has generally had more costs than benefits and, I argue, has consequently not been in Australia's much‐invoked ‘national interest ...
Mark Beeson
wiley   +1 more source

Pros and Cons of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment [PDF]

Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 2021
The main objectives of the present paper are to elaborate on the EUChina Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), its provisions, advantages and potential risks, and to detach various standpoints of relevant actors, related to this agreement.
Iulia Monica Oehler-Șincai
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