Changing Directions for International Investment law in the Global Economy An Overview of Selected Issues
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Summary
This study will survey contemporary developments in international investment law before the background of the notion of the "global economy". It is not meant as an exhaustive and comprehensive survey, but rather as a commentary on contemporary key developments. International investment law can be narrated on the basis of the Third World perspective of the 1970s, propagated by international lawyers and economists of the developing countries concerned over exploitation of poor countries and an unequal world economic order. Here, the assertion of national sovereignty against ...