International trade and commerce

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

International investments are governed by three different legal frameworks: 1) national laws of both the host country and the investor's home country; 2) contracts, whether between the investor and the host country or among investors and their associates; and 3) international law, consisting of applicable treaties, customs, and general principles of law.

A discussion of the flexibility in WTO law for developing countries and how it can be used to their economic advantage.

Education and media services have much in common.

This book looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection.

Since China adopted its 'open door' policy in 1978, which altered its development strategy from self-sufficiency to active participation in the world market, its goal has remained unchanged: to assist the readjustment of China's economy, to coordinate its modernization programs, and to improve its quality of life.

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

Contains GATT, GATS, TRIPS, the new dispute settlement procedures and the legal framework of the WTO.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2018.

This is a broad-ranging study of U.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the CETA Investment Chapter's ability to overcome the legitimacy crisis facing investment arbitration.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases in 2020.

This book expounds trade theory emphasizing that a trading equilibrium is general rather than partial.

Offers a guide to the concepts essential for understanding macroeconomic analysis and policies at a practical level.

Since late 2008, relations between the United States and South Korea have been arguably at their best state in decades.

This book examines the relatively recent and under-explored phenomenon of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from the large emerging market countries, focusing on the four BRIC states (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and on the services sector meaning primarily telecommunications, finance, and transport.

The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.

As conflict and cooperation among states turn to an ever greater extent on economic issues, this fully updated and expanded second edition presents a comprehensive exploration of the legal foundations of the international economy.

Gathii authoritatively analyzes and evaluates the growing importance of regional trade integration in Africa and exposes its successes and failures.

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance.

The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to study how public market regulation affected private economic life.

Closing a critical gap in the literature examining the strained relationship between the U.

Winner of the Penang Book Prize 2019Nusantaria often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and trading hub.

A study of the powerful impact that sugar had on U.

The early twenty-first century has seen a conspicuous absence of formal international law concerning money and finance.

Discusses the various challenges the WTO faces and provides policy-relevant ideas to reform WTO governance.

Renowned industrial expert Geoffrey Owen analyses the complex reasons behind the delayed modernisation of British industry.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases in 2020.

In order to achieve success, managers need to understand the strategic issues in Asia.

A 2005 investigation of the economics and politics of preferential trade agreements in the multilateral trade system.

A concise account of the key investment-protection provisions of the controversial Energy Charter Treaty.

The essence of the WTO Appellate Body case law from 1995 to 2010.

This is the nineteenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.

A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies.

The first comprehensive, article-by-article commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

Charts the development of merchant communities in Sind and their interaction with the global economy.

A comparative analysis of the role of EU and US defence procurement regulation as a barrier to transatlantic defence trade.

This book compares the experiences of the Philippines and Vietnam to gain insight into how openness to trade and financing can increase prosperity.

As every schoolboy knows, Canada is one of the larger trading countries of the world but, from the point of view of balancing her international merchandise trade payments, she does not export enough.

Investment protection treaties generally provide for the obligation to treat investments fairly and equitably, even if the wording of the rule and its relationship with the customary international standard may differ.

This book offers the first thorough legal analysis of the practice of mixity since the Lisbon Treaty, providing the perspectives of international, EU, and national law.