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These essays discuss the failure of the OECD draft Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI), and the subsequent conclusion that any attempt to regulate investment at the global level must pay serious attention to the position of developing countries.
List of contents
Preface; C.J.J.M. Stolker. 1. Multilateral Regulation of Investment: Legal, Political and Economic Aspects; E.C. Nieuwenhuys, M.M.T.A. Brus. 2. A Multilateral Investment Agreement from a North-South Perspective; N.J. Schrijver. 3. Developing Countries and Multilateral Investment Negotiations; E.V.K. FitzGerald. 4. Comments on the MAI's General Principles for the Treatment of Foreign Investors and Their Investments: A Chinese Scholar's Perspective; C. Huiping. 5. A Liberal Multilateral Investment System, Transnational Enterprises, Home and Host Countries: Some Observations; E.C. Nieuwenhuys. 6. Protection Without Protectionism: Linking a Multilateral Investment Treaty and Human Rights; S. Zia-Zarifi. 7. State-to-State and Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement in the OECD Draft Multilateral Investment Agreement; P. Malanczuk. 8. How to Establish a Multilateral Framework for Investment? M.W. Sikkel. 9. Foreign Investment in the WTO; M. Koulen. Appendix: The MAI Negotiating Text (Excerpts). About the Authors. Index.
