Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

Multinational enterprises and the global economy

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.ces.8100210.pdf

Multinational Firms in the World Economy

An Analysis of Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/47/30404/01397912.pdf

In Defense of Globalization

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is growing and some developed and developing countries are beginning to revisit their investment treaty policies. The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime synthesises and advances the growing literature on this subject by integrating legal, economic, and political perspectives. Based on an analysis of the substantive and procedural rights conferred by investment treaties, it asks four basic questions. What are the costs and benefits of investment treaties for investors, states, and other stakeholders? Why did developed and developing countries sign the treaties? Why should private arbitrators be allowed to review public regulations passed by states? And what is the relationship between the investment treaty regime and the broader regime complex that governs international investment? Through a concise, but comprehensive, analysis, this book fills in some of the many "blind spots" of academics from different disciplines, and is the first port of call for lawyers, investors, policy-makers, and stakeholders trying to make sense of these critical instruments governing investor-state relations.

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

3 Investment Treaty Arbitration

This thesis outlines and describes the urban development of Hanoi from the beginnings to the present day as a series of historical and ongoing processes of transition. The recent economic and social changes, which are part of the transition process known as 'Doi Moi' (Renovation), are most visible in the Vietnamese cities. The country's two major urban centers, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, have gained the most from the Doi Moi policy; but they also illustrate the negative effects of reform such as increasing intra-urban disparities through a growing polarization of incomes, rising unemployment and the emergence of marginal settlements as a result of increasing migration from rural areas. As in many Eastern European cities, distinct actor groups can be seen to initiate processes typical of transition, such as the rapid emergence of private enterprises, the fast-track development of a Central Business District (CBD), internationalization, and displacement processes accompanied by! social and spatial segregation. The present thesis deals with the particular effects of the transition process on the city center of Hanoi, examining them at the micro-level. It intends to show that the nature and the extent of change in the economic and social spheres are strongly influenced by the persistence of architectural structures, which in turn can be traced to historical transition processes. Since no other branch of the economy reacts as quickly and dynamically to social change as the retail trade, a primary survey was conducted to take stock of the highly heterogeneous retail structures of downtown Hanoi and the proprietors were questioned. The focus of the empirical investigation was on Vietnam's oldest existing trade, market and retail estate, the 36 Streets Quarter. In the early stages of the transformational phase, this district experienced a surge of new companies in private retail that was supported predominantly by local traders. Empirical analysis show! s that in the course of transition, new entrepreneurial actors from outside the 36 Streets Quarter have initiated modernization processes that have in turn triggered a development towards displacement. In addition, this publication identifies the various groups of actors and offers an assessment of the structures they are likely to develop in the future. The retail business is thus examined as a mirror image of social polarization, which can be described in terms of 'losers of transition' and 'beneficiaries of transition'. In this context, the policy of Doi Moi represents the latest stage in a series of historical transitions that have had an impact on the urban development of Hanoi, the complex dynamics of which are reflected in the described changes in the retail trade. 

Waibel Michael

Papers

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

3 Investment Treaty Arbitration

Stadtentwicklung von Hanoi