The author introduces Gehring's call for a multi-lateralization of Impact Assessments (IAs). IA processes in Canada, the US and the EU illustrate the complex nature of IAs and their challenges in a rapidly evolving international investment law and policy regime. IAs have expanded to include...

The 2009/2010 edition of Investment Yearbook addresses such issues as investment flows, trends in international investment agreements, treaty-based arbitration cases, the procedural side, and ICSID.The edition includes articles by Persephone Economou and Karl P. Sauvant; Peter Muchlinski; Ian A....

China is now one of the world's most important outward investors. The salient features of the country's cross-border direct investments (discussed in the first section) include that its foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown rapidly, that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) play a dominant role...

As the authors of this volume observe in their Introduction, “The global regime for investment is dynamic and continually growing”. This is certainly a correct observation. But the regime is not only growing, it also receives considerable attention and is subject to close scrutiny, both by...

This short chapter addresses two challenges in relation to the reform of the international investment law and policy regime, namely how to encourage the flow of substantially higher amounts of sustainable foreign direct investment (i.e., investment that makes a maximum contribution to...

International investment needs are tremendous. This requires that the international investment regime constitutes a framework for increased flows of sustainable foreign direct investment for sustainable development. The international investment regime covers what has become the single most...