Since the inception of the international investment law system, investment promotion and protection have been the raison d’être of investment treaties and states have confined their policy space in order to attract foreign investment and protect their investors abroad. Languishing in relative...

This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...

Over the last few years, the right to regulate has evolved from a rather inconspicuous, mistrusted concept to a necessary component of international investment agreements. This brief study offers a complementary account of the right to regulate compared to the author’s treatment of the topic a...

In modern day investment arbitrations, states can no longer be seen as passive players suffering through a process conducted at their expense. They possess an impressive arsenal of means which enable them to “strike back” once an investor contemplates or has initiated arbitration. Although...

This paper provides an overview of the political economy literature dealing with questions related to global governance, with a particular focus on its democratization. It further outlines an ambitious research agenda for bringing global governance and its structures within the political economy...

Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS) provides a framework for Canada’s relationship with the leading growth region in the global economy. The IPS approaches the Indo-Pacific as a strategic arena for comprehensive foreign policy, with economic/business linkages as an essential component. This...

Conventional wisdom holds that globalization has peaked and is now in retreat. Dani Rodrik argued in 2000 that economic integration conflicted with national sovereignty and that this tension would, or at least should, put a brake on economic globalization. Has that view been vindicated? This...

This short symposium piece looks at one controversial set of proposals for reforming data governance: the move towards “collective data rights.” The project for recognizing collective data rights is inspiring, understandable, and laudable. At the same time, however, this piece highlights a...

The concept of national security has evolved to address a range of threats, including non-State actors and non-military and non-human threats, such as economic crises, cybersecurity, terrorism, iand climate change. In particular, some States are vigorously expanding the notion of national...