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The Investment Version of the Asian Noodle Bowl: The Proliferation of International Investment Agreements
Chaisse, Julien; Hamanaka, Shintaro - Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian … - 2014
While there is an extensive amount of literature on the noodle bowl of agreements in Asia, the majority of studies … in Asia. The noodle bowl of FTAs usually results in more options for traders and even can bring unexpected preferences …
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Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: Insights from Advanced Systems of Corporate Law
Gaukrodger, David - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2014
Corporate law in advanced domestic legal systems on the one hand, and typical treaties for the protection of foreign investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally bar shareholders from claiming for reflective loss...
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement: A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community
Gaukrodger, David; Gordon, Kathryn - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2012
Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This...
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Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims: Analysis of Treaty Practice
Gaukrodger, David - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2014
Advanced systems of domestic corporate law generally apply a “no reflective loss” principle to shareholder claims. Shareholder claims are permitted for direct injury to shareholder rights (such as voting rights). But shareholders generally cannot bring claims for reflective loss incurred as...
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Temporal Validity of International Investment Agreements: A Large Sample Survey of Treaty Provisions
Pohl, Joachim - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprises … - 2013
International investment agreements (IIAs) almost universally define their temporal validity and thus set conditions for States’ exit from these treaties.<P> This study presents the results of the survey of language that determines the temporal validity of 2,061 bilateral investment agreements...</p>
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When the Claim Hits: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bounded Rational Learning
Aisbett, Emma Kate; Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper introduces notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until...
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The Fragility of the Liberal Peace Export to South Sudan: Formal Education Access as a Basis of a Liberal Peace Project
Pemunta, Ngambouk Vitalis; Nkongho, Eno-Akpa Rene - In: Journal of Human Security 10 (2014) 1, pp. 59-75
This study examines the disjuncture between the policy transposition of the Liberal Peace Project (LPP) in South Sudan from the country's local context. It underlines how deep rooted historical exclusion from social welfare services reinforces political exclusion and exacerbates poor civic...
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A Case for Cohabitative Security: The Philippine and Malaysian Experience
Magcamit, Michael Intal - In: Journal of Human Security 10 (2014) 1, pp. 32-45
This article attempts to explore and analyse the evidence for cohabiting the human security concept into the national security frameworks of ASEAN countries. Using the Philippines and Malaysia as case studies, the article determines the extent to which public officials and policymakers have...
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Can the Pragmatic East Asian Approach to Human Security Offer a Way for the Deepening of the Long Peace of East Asia?
Kivimäki, Timo - In: Journal of Human Security 10 (2014) 1, pp. 76-88
East Asia (including Southeast and Northeast Asia) has witnessed the most spectacular pacification in the world during … East Asia. Despite progress, authoritarian violence is still a reality in East Asia. At the same time, certain other … the long peace of East Asia. This article will study whether the concept of human security constructs realities that are …
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The Radicalisation of Prison Inmates: A Review of the Literature on Recruitment, Religion and Prisoner Vulnerability
Mulcahy, Elizabeth; Merrington, Shannon; Bell, Peter James - In: Journal of Human Security 9 (2013) 1, pp. 4-14
It should come as no surprise that prisons can become breeding grounds for radicalisation and terrorism as prisons serve as reservoirs for society’s most dangerous individuals (Useem & Clayton, 2009). Prisons are places of vulnerability and they provide a space where radical and extremist...
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