Investment Treaties: The Reform Matrix

This essay proposes a matrix for understanding the dynamics of investment treaty reform. It tracks incremental, systemic, and paradigmatic reform options as applied across procedure, substance, and form. Although stylized and thus unable to capture all the nuances of individual positions, the reform...

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Main Author: Anthea Roberts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018-01-01
Series:AJIL Unbound
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772318000612/type/journal_article
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description This essay proposes a matrix for understanding the dynamics of investment treaty reform. It tracks incremental, systemic, and paradigmatic reform options as applied across procedure, substance, and form. Although stylized and thus unable to capture all the nuances of individual positions, the reform matrix creates a framework for understanding some of the main debates about investment treaty reforms and offers a template for locating and comparing the approaches of key international actors, including the United States, the European Union, and Japan, together with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (the BRICS).
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spelling doaj.art-7d9778f961d44771b5eb30c9e99b9a812023-03-09T12:27:07ZengCambridge University PressAJIL Unbound2398-77232018-01-0111219119610.1017/aju.2018.61Investment Treaties: The Reform MatrixAnthea Roberts0AJIL Board of Editors; School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University.This essay proposes a matrix for understanding the dynamics of investment treaty reform. It tracks incremental, systemic, and paradigmatic reform options as applied across procedure, substance, and form. Although stylized and thus unable to capture all the nuances of individual positions, the reform matrix creates a framework for understanding some of the main debates about investment treaty reforms and offers a template for locating and comparing the approaches of key international actors, including the United States, the European Union, and Japan, together with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (the BRICS).https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2398772318000612/type/journal_article
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