The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an agreed blueprint for sustainable development, and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the means to facilitate this. The SDGs neither conflict with nor hinder taxation or investment policies. At the same time, the globalization of...

This article analyses dispute resolution in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the perspective of the debate on unity, diversity and fragmentation of international law. This article presents a critical perspective that although the BRI preaches unity through greater economic (and...

Investments from emerging economies have increased since the beginning of the century and notably a large proportion of the flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) coming from emerging economies is executed by State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) both typical...

Vietnam is increasingly participating in the global economic integration as part of its strategy in transition into a free market economy, and has recently concluded the negotiations with the European Union (EU) on the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA). The EVFTA is the first Vietnam...

The efficacy of the World Trade Organization (WTO), as an international forum seeking to provide a uniform platform to Member States for bilateral and multilateral negotiations and further the spirit of a new international economic legal order, is challenged constantly. This article explains how...

There have been many successful attempts to analyse most of the rules and principles that make up the substance of the international law of foreign investment. There is, however, a lack of a general theory, or, at least, a tool which would allow us to analyse, compare, and make sense of this...

This book analyses actual and potential normative (whether legislative or contractual) conflicts and complex transnational disputes related to state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) operations and how they are interwoven with the problem of foreign direct investment. Moreover, SCEs also fall within...