The territorial state which dominated the industrial era is increasingly becoming obsolete, and is gradually being replaced by new forms of global governance (Ohmae, 1995; Strange, 1996, 1998; Rosecrance, 1999). Moreover, the pressure from global markets have blurred the ideological differences among...

An analysis of the provisions included in the different BITs shows that, in negotiations with important capital exporting countries, there was generally a prevalence of provisions proposed by the capital exporting counterpart. This was shown by the prevalence in the Argentine BITs of provisions...