This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...

The present chapter is premised on the assumption that the promotion of liberal market values is an essential objective of the international economic order, but that so too is (and will be) the preservation of institutional diversity and the capacity for institutional innovation, against which...

The prevailing view of the U.N. system’s approach to organized crime holds that progress in integrating counter-crime initiatives into peace operations established by the U.N. Security Council has been limited, and the U.N. system has taken a cautious approach against organized crime. A more...

The prevailing view among legal scholars over the last decade is that international financial collaboration is a resolutely cooperative venture that cannot be reduced to the interests or relative power of individual states. Moving along this line, the book under review shows that the protection...

The past thirty years have seen unprecedented international initiatives aimed at combatting corrupt practices. The net effect of such initiatives is that today there exists a sort of “hyper-norm” repudiating corruption that transcends national boundaries. Over the same period, Italy has...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is a Paris-based intergovernmental organization that was founded with the objective of promoting effective implementation of laws, regulations, and other measures to combat money laundering (ML), financing of terrorism (FT), and similar threats to financial...

While in a year of unprecedented crisis for the organisation the event did not make many news headlines, on 12 April 2019, the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) commemorated its 30th anniversary. Together with the many rules on notifications, publication and reporting embodied in the...

The Security Council's reaction to the nuclear tests conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) in 2016 through Resolutions 2270 and 2321 have significantly changed the picture of UN sanctions regime against this country and created the most comprehensive,...

State-owned enterprises have long constituted, and are likely to remain, an important instrument in any government's toolbox for a variety of economic and societal goals. However, the significant extent of state ownership among the world's top companies, and the quantitative and qualitative...

With some 40 different types of restrictive measures in force, the European Union is undisputedly one of the major protagonists of today's sanction regimes. Measures such as selective trade embargos, asset freezes and travel bans have been adopted by the EU not only to implement Security Council...