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"Much of the existing accounts assume that investment treaties affect national governance. However, how exactly this happens has been subject to little analysis. Conventional accounts presume that these treaties improve national governance, leading to good governance and the rule of law for all. Critical accounts charge that investment treaties unduly empower foreign investors and cause a regulatory chill. On both accounts, investment treaties are expected to empower and constrain. Comparing extended case studies of Argentina, the Czech Republic, India and Mexico, this book shows how investment treaties influence national governance ideologically, institutionally, and socially"--
List of contents
1. National governance and investment treaties; 2. Situating the engagements with the investment treaty regime in Argentina, Czech Republic, India, and Mexico; Part I. Discursive and Ideological Effects of Investment Treaties on National Governance; 3. Narratives of progress and economic development; 4. Narratives of education and constraint; Part II. Formal and Informal Institutional Effects on International Investment Agreements on National Governance; 5. The state's institutional rearrangements and international investment agreements; 6. defending the state in ISDS and preventing disputes; 7. International investment agreements and national lawmaking (part 1): four country snapshots; 8. International investment agreements and national lawmaking (part 2): multifaceted uses if IIA-arguments in lawmaking.
About the author
Josef Ostřanský has worked as lecturer and research fellow at various universities in Europe, Australia and Latin America, and has published extensively on international investment law. He has worked as a consultant on international economic law with international organisations. In 2021, he won the CIBEL Global Young Scholar Network Prize.Facundo Pérez Aznar is Senior Researcher at the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement and Associate Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Buenos Aires. He acted as counsel in numerous in international investment disputes. His has published extensively on different aspects of international economic law and dispute settlement.
Summary
Using socio-legal methodologies, this book shows how investment treaties influence national governance ideologically, institutionally and socially. It shows who gets empowered and marginalised in the process. It will be of use to readers in international law, sociology and anthropology of law and governance as well as to policy-oriented audiences.
Foreword
Comparing extended case studies of 4 states, this book shows how investment treaties influence national governance ideologically, institutionally and socially.
