"We have no horror of FOREIGN CAPITAL - if subjected to (domestic) management (Niles' Weekly Register, cited in Wilkins, 1989: 85) We are always prepared to provide the necessary security to foreign capital on the condition that its profits be regulated by law [emphasis added] (Mustafa Kemal...

In the decade following the 2008 financial crisis, many advanced industrialized economies engaged in a competition to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), whose flows had plummeted following the global shock. At the same time, however, they also implemented or tightened Investment Screening...