Less than meets the eye: state re-regulation via regional institutionalization -- More than meets the eye: market reconfiguration at the continental level -- The continent in transition -- further reconfiguration under globalizing pressures -- Not what meets the eye: global governance North...

Since the ISA's overarching theme for this conference is norm diffusion, we will address a specific, dual issue -- foreign-investment protection agreements (FIPAs), which governments adopt when they ratify these documents, and investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) processes, which establish...