International investment rule-making
Subtitle: stocktaking, challenges and the way forward
By: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Series: UNCTAD series on international investment policies for development; UNCTAD series on international investment policies for development
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9789211127317
Subjects: Foreign Investments; Government policy; Commercial treaties; Investments; International cooperation; Investments, Foreign (International law)
Description: This book reviews sixty years of international investment rule-making and identifies main trends in current treaty practice, as well as the core characteristics of the existing universe of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) at the beginning of the 21st century. Based on this analysis, the third part describes the main challenges for policy makers and IIA negotiators deriving from the present IIA system, and makes a number of suggestions on how to deal with them. The Fourth part contains a brief outlook concerning the future evolution of the IIA universe.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The history of the current IIA universe; title: The IIA universe at the beginning of the 21st century; title: Challenges in managing the existing IIA universe; title: Outlook.