The practice of countries demanding discharge of offset obligations as a prerequisite to foreign firms’ participation in major civilian or defence contracts is not new, and recent years in particular have seen a number of countries, both developed and developing, apply offsets and industrial...

This short paper explores certain legal issues and international best practices on regulating partisan publicity by incumbent governments: an issue that attracted the attention of the Supreme Court in India recently and has led to the setting up of a committee to make recommendations to the...