geopolitics
The Real News Network | 3-Nov-2022
US senators argue that abolishing special economic zones known as ZEDEs would violate the provisions of CAFTA-DR, including the provision ensuring “fair and equitable treatment and full protection and security.”
Venezuelanalysis | 12-Jan-2022
With the US-backed "interim presidency" not going away, what are the implications for Venezuela’s foreign assets?
New Straits Times | 20-Oct-2021
Sudan’s government confiscated Petronas’s assets on the grounds that they were acquired "through illegal means" during Omar al-Bashir’s regime. Some argue that Sudan is turning on its allies "under the pretext of fighting corruption".
Herbert Smith Freehills | 31-Oct-2019
While the geopolitical tensions remain, the legal landscape continues to evolve. It seems likely that more claims will be brought in each direction.
Lauge Poulsen | 23-Sep-2019
Western architects of the investment regime expected the treaties to play a standard-setting role to be used in informal bargaining with host states.
Korea Herald | 11-Sep-2017
China has shown no hesitation in disregarding its obligations under the free trade agreement with South Korea to take retaliatory measures against the deployment of a US missile defense system in the peninsula, say Korean media
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China ,
geopolitics ,
investor-state disputes | ISDS ,
Japan ,
militarism | terrorism | security
IISD | 15-Jun-2016
Lauge Poulsen is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at University College London. His recent book explains why and how developing countries signed up to investment treaties.
SSRN | 9-Jun-2016
Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) treaties are more than a historical precursor to international investment agreements (IIA) and continue to influence and inspire modern investment treaty design.
EurActiv | 9-Dec-2014
Trade officials negotiating the ISDS arbitration clause within the EU-US trade agreement have half an eye on their next deals, since the wording is likely to shape other key trade treaties on the table.
Seedling | 17-Mar-2005
Examines how bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements which contain specific investment provisions reflect geopolitical concerns and redefine rights and privileges for transnational corporations, including with respect to commercial control over biodiversity through intellectual property rights.
