Confronting the Challenges of State Capitalism : Trends, Rules, and Debates

This chapter explores the phenomenon of state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) by assessing, in the first part, the emergence of state capitalism from a political-economic perspective. In the second part, the chapter examines the concept of SCE and the panoply of SCEs’ structures with a diversity of shapes, degrees, and elements of governmental control. The third part of the chapter investigates the regulatory complexity and the normative tensions triggered by the rise of SCEs as actors in international law. Eventually, the chapter provides an overview of the chapters that compose the book and address the core theme from a broad range of SCEs and international economic regulations, including but not limited to competition law, WTO law, investment law, financial and monetary law