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  • The Return of the Home State to Investor-State Disputes

    Bringing Back Diplomatic Protection?

    by Rodrigo Polanco ...
    Series series Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law
    This book advances the idea that in order to address some of the criticisms against investor-state dispute settlement, a large majority of states have taken a 'normative' strategy, negotiating or amending investment treaties with provisions that potentially give more control and greater involvement to the contracting parties, and notably the home state. This is particularly true of agreements ... Read more

    $135.29 USD

  • Globalization in Latin America

    The Law, Politics and Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements

    Edited by Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco, Andrew Lugg ...
    The approach of Latin American countries to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a fascinating topic. There is a rich history of policymakers using PTAs to pursue different economic and political models of integration. What really stands out is the diversity of approaches and attitudes to the use of PTAs. While some countries have been rule-makers and have made innovative attempts to introduce ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • The Concept Design of a Twenty-First Century Preferential Trade Agreement

    Trends and Future Innovations

    Edited by Kathleen Claussen, Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco ...
    The Concept Design of a 21st Century Preferential Trade Agreement describes the current status and possible future evolution of trade agreements. The individual contributions provide fine-grained analyses of the various challenges trade agreements face and how these differ across countries. The book brings together leading researchers from international law and international relations to provide ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • International Economic Dispute Settlement

    Demise or Transformation?

    Edited by Manfred Elsig, Rodrigo Polanco, Peter van den Bossche ...
    The post-Cold War era has seen an unprecedented move towards more legalization in international cooperation and a growth of third-party dispute settlement systems. WTO panels, the Appellate Body and investor-state dispute settlement cases have received increasing attention beyond the core trade and investment constituencies within governments. Scrutiny by business, civil society, academia, and ... Read more

    $146.79 USD

  • The Pacific Alliance in a World of Preferential Trade Agreements

    Lessons in Comparative Regionalism

    Edited by Pierre Sauvé, Rodrigo Polanco Lazo, José Manuel Álvarez Zárate ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume focuses on one of the most innovative deep integration constructs, The Pacific Alliance, which aims at expanding the frontiers of trade and investment governance in Latin America. It draws on a conference held at Externado University in Bogota, Colombia, in November 2015, bringing together leading scholars, practitioners and officers of public, regional and international organisations ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    by Adolfo Kloke-Lesch, Manmohan Agarwal, Ross Herbert, James Mackie, Enrique Saravia, Zhou Hong, Maximo Romero ...
    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America

    Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together and thus contribute to institutional resiliency. Political systems generally ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

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  • Does North America Exist?

    Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Trouble with Aid

    Why Less Could Mean More for Africa

    by Jonathan Glennie ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments to double aid to Africa and help put an end to such shameful inequality.It seems simple. But it isn't. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Decentralization and Popular Democracy

    Governance from Below in Bolivia

    by Jean-Paul Faguet ...
    Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable, partly due to the creation of new local governments. Many municipalities responded to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

    $24.00 USD