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Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

By: Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen

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Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

By: Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen

Modern investment treaties give private arbitrators power to determine whether governments should pay compensation to foreign investors for a wide range of sovereign acts. In recent years, particularly developing countries have incurred significant liabilities from investment treaty arbitration, which begs the question why they signed the treaties in the first place. Through a comprehensive and timely analysis, this book shows that governments in developing countries typically overestimated the economic benefits of investment treaties and practically ignored their risks. Rooted in insights on bounded rationality from behavioural psychology and economics, the analysis highlights how policy-makers often relied on inferential shortcuts when assessing the implications of the treaties, which resulted in systematic deviations from fully rational behaviour. This not only sheds new light on one of the most controversial legal regimes underwriting economic globalization but also provides a novel theoretical account of the often irrational, yet predictable, nature of economic diplomacy.

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Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

By: Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen

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The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

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This book examines how developing countries often sign up to highly potent rules underwriting economic globalisation without even realising it.

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1107119537

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The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel

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The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel

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.

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Oxford University Press

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0192529838

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The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

By: Jonathan Bonnitcha,Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen,Michael Waibel

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Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime

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