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Geopolitics and global strategy: Making money under anarchy

Global Strategy Journal, Volume 16, Issue 3, Page 259-286, August 2026.
Abstract Research Summary Multinational firms conduct cross‐border trade and investment in a world of anarchy, where nation‐states must secure their survival in the absence of a world government. We develop a geopolitical‐economic order (GEO) framework to argue that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types ...
Daniel J. Blake, Srividya Jandhyala, Quan Li   +2 more
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Sovereign Default Disputes in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Jurisdictional Considerations and Policy Implications

Groningen Journal of International Law, 2015
In the aftermath of Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis, creditors not participating in the country sovereign debt restructuring insisted on full payment. The triplet of investment arbitration decisions upheld jurisdiction over the mass claims presented by ...
Josef Ostřanský
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Theorizing the Cooling-Off Provision as an Additional Standard of Investment Protection

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2021
Most of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) contains a cooling-off period provision requiring both parties to an investment dispute to make an attempt to settle their differences amicably within a clear time frame, before initiating arbitration ...
Danilo Di Bella
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Corporate Quasi‐Sovereignty: Big Tech and the Politics of Sovereign Authority in the Digital Age

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT As private technology firms expand their control over critical infrastructures, questions of sovereignty and governance are increasingly displaced from states to corporate actors. Existing scholarship on sovereignty assumes that authority is either monopolized by states or shared through institutionalized public–private arrangements.
Chee Hae Chung, Bryce J. Dietrich
wiley   +1 more source

European Union’s  Withdrawal from Energy Charter Treaty: A Result of Climate Policy?

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This article analyzes the political and economic motivations behind the coordinated decision of the European Union and its member states to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in March 2024.
A. V. Zimakov
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, Page 531-561, July 2026.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Land Under Siege: Militarized Capitalism and Urban Land Dispossession in the City of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the relationship between militarization and land grabbing in the context of rapid urbanization and protracted violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drawing on two case studies of the dispossession and privatization of public urban land in Goma, Eastern Congo, during the state of siege, the paper ...
Benjamin Muhoza, Karen Büscher, Sam Kniknie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Approaches to Compensation under Different Causes of Action in the International Investment Arbitration

Московский журнал международного права, 2012
The article addresses the issue of the principal causes of action in the international investment arbitration. The first part gives analysis of the expropriation at the present stage.
D. K. Labin, A. S. Yukhno
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Opening the doors: Legal consequences of breaching international climate obligations in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 340-348, July 2026.
Abstract In its landmark advisory opinion on States' obligations regarding climate change, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tackled the highly contentious issue of the legal consequences of unlawful acts and State responsibility. While the Court adopted a more cautious approach on this matter than it did when interpreting States' primary ...
Yann Kerbrat, Sandrine Maljean‐Dubois
wiley   +1 more source

Drafting and Interpreting International Investment Agreements from a Sustainable Development Perspective

Groningen Journal of International Law, 2015
The proliferation of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and treaty-based investment arbitration has raised concerns over the extent to which IIAs are actually fair and are able to balance the interests of foreign investors and States.
Claudia Salgado Levy
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