Foreign investors' fear of expropriation led to the emergence of the idea of new ways of protection and adequate treatment of foreign investments on the international level. Primarily, the home countries wanted to protect their interests and became the main proponents of the creation of...

This Article presents an account of how and why international trade and international investment law are merging. It describes this phenomenon as resulting from the dynamics of the treaty-making process and the strategies employed by litigation parties at the time of the enforcement of treaty...