{"id":5104,"date":"2018-04-24T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T16:28:29","slug":"legalization-diplomacy-and-development-do-investment-treaties-de-politicize-investment-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/2018\/04\/24\/legalization-diplomacy-and-development-do-investment-treaties-de-politicize-investment-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalization, Diplomacy, and Development: Do investment treaties de-politicize investment disputes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Geoffrey Gertz, Srividya Jandhyala, and Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen, Published by Elsevier in <em>World Development<\/em>, volume 107, July 2018, pp. 238\u2013252<\/h3>\n<p>Architects of the investment treaty regime, as well as many current proponents, have suggested that the treaties also allow developing countries to de-politicize investor\u2013state disputes, shielding commercial disputes from broader political and diplomatic considerations with developed states. The paper subjects this widely accepted and promoted argument to empirical investigation, using a dataset of U.S. diplomatic actions in 219 investment disputes across 73 countries and case studies of U.S. State Department diplomatic cables. The authors find no evidence for the de-politicization hypothesis. Their findings provide a critical corrective to the understanding of the investment treaty regime and its effects on developing countries. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0305750X18300688\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0305750X18300688<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips114','Sistema de Tribunales de Inversiones'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architects of the investment treaty regime, as well as many current proponents, have suggested that the treaties also allow developing countries to de-politicize investor\u2013state disputes, shielding commercial disputes from broader political and diplomatic considerations with developed states.<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips67','Energy Charter Treaty'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','investissement direct \u00e9tranger'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips116','European Commission'); <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/itn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}