Two prominent features in current world affairs are the unprecedented levels of global economic integration and the growing incidence of intrastate violence. We develop and test a novel argument linking foreign direct investment (FDI) to intrastate armed violence in developing countries. We...

Does development aid attract FDI in post-conflict countries? This paper contributes to the growing literature on effects of aid and on determinants of FDI by explaining how development aid in low-information environments is a signal that can attract investment. Before investing abroad, firms...

"This book deals mainly, but not only, with investments protected by particular rules of international law in situations of armed conflicts, including occupation. Disputes on maritime or territorial boundaries obviously do not only arise in or follow armed conflicts. It is true that they can...