Nicolás Perrone
The Governance of Foreign Investment at a Crossroad: Is an overlapping consensus the way forward?
Perrone, Nicolás
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Abstract
This article makes the claim that the present efforts to reform the international investment regime (IIR) will not save this field from the existing criticisms. Given the plural values at issue, it is unlikely that states – let alone local populations – will ever reach a consensus on the substantive questions surrounding foreign investment. Historically, the main characteristic of foreign investment governance has been the lack of multilateral consensus. This field remained dominated by diplomacy and customary international law until bilateral treaties and investment arbitration became the leading mechanism to resolve investment disputes in the 1990s. This highly legalized regime, however, has been subject to criticisms from developing and increasingly from developed countries. Most reform proposals fail to go beyond alternatives that have been unsuccessful in the past, such as a multilateral investment agreement (MIA) or state-to-state arbitration. This article takes a different approach to foreign investment governance, starting from its political economy. It claims that the IIR does not depoliticize foreign investment relations but rather promotes the politics of foreign investors’ property rights protection. Relying on property theory and pluralism as heuristic tools, this article analyses the resistance to investment arbitration, the obstacles to multilateral cooperation, and the possibility of an overlapping consensus on the institutions for foreign investment governance.
Citation
Perrone, N. (2015). The Governance of Foreign Investment at a Crossroad: Is an overlapping consensus the way forward?. Global Jurist, 15(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1515/gj-2014-0014
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Oct 11, 2014 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 3, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Oct 3, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 21, 2016 |
Journal | Global Jurist |
Electronic ISSN | 1934-2640 |
Publisher | De Gruyter |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-28 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/gj-2014-0014 |
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Perrone, Nicolás (2014) 'The governance of foreign investment at a crossroad : is an overlapping consensus the way forward?', in Global jurist, 15 (1). pp. 1-28.
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