Todd Allee

TL;DR: Huth and Allee as discussed by the authors present a systematic reassessment of the theoretical and empirical foundations of the democratic peace literature and provide insights into understanding when and why democratic leaders engage in cooperative or confrontational foreign policies.

TL;DR: This article developed and tested a general argument about the conditions under which state leaders are most likely to choose legal dispute resolution over bilateral negotiations as a means to settle international disputes and found that leaders who anticipate significant domestic audience costs for the making of voluntary, negotiated concessions are likely to seek the "political cover" of an international legal ruling.

TL;DR: This paper showed that BITs do increase FDI into countries that sign them, but only if those countries are not subsequently challenged before the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), a heavily utilized and widely observed arbitral institution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify systematic variation in "legal delegation" to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) across BITs and explain this important variation by drawing upon a bargaining framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of bilateral investment treaties is presented, which suggests that the design of treaties is driven by powerful states, which include elements in the treaties that serve their interests regardless of the treaty partner or the current strategic setting.