The South Asian region while holding a prominent position in terms of attracting FDIs, conspicuously been infrequent on the radar of international investment law (IIL) scholarship. In the rapidly shifting plane of international investment law considering the recent backlash against the ISDS...

This paper provides a first-ever detailed study of NPM provisions in all stand-alone BITs which are in force in South Asian countries. It studies 147 BITs of South Asian countries in order to map the NPM provisions in them. It makes an in-depth analysis of the NPM provisions found in these BITs,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Belt and Road Initiative in South Asia: benefit for China or threat to participants -- Chapter 3: China’s Conundrum in Afghanistan -- Chapter 4: China in Bangladesh: Developing infrastructure or deepening influence -- Chapter 5: Growing Sino-Indian...