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TDM call for papers: Cybersecurity in international arbitration (special issue)
Transnational Dispute Management | 31-May-2018
There is a manifest need for the international arbitration community to begin to develop a shared understanding of the scope of the threat and the appropriate response.
keywords: investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security
THAAD reprisals undermine China FTA
Korea Herald | 11-Sep-2017
China has shown no hesitation in disregarding its obligations under the free trade agreement with South Korea to take retaliatory measures against the deployment of a US missile defense system in the peninsula, say Korean media
keywords: China, geopolitics, investor-state disputes | ISDS, Japan, militarism | terrorism | security
ICSID arbitrators turn investment treaty into insurance policy against terrorism
International Economic Law and Policy Blog | 8-Mar-2017
The consequence of this decision is that investors would likely be put above all other victims of terrorism and related political violence in conflict areas. That is shocking from the perspective of international justice.
keywords: Egypt, energy, investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security
Arbitrator rules Egypt must compensate EMG
Globes | 4-Mar-2017
The international arbitration panel ruled that Egypt failed to protect the Sinai pipeline from terrorists.
keywords: Egypt, energy, investor-state disputes | ISDS, Israel, militarism | terrorism | security
A BIT too late
Financial Express | 16-Aug-2016
It is likely that the Antrix case — which could see the Government of India paying $1 billion if it loses — would have had a different outcome had the new model BIT been at issue.
keywords: India, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS, Mauritius, militarism | terrorism | security
Al Jazeera sues Egypt for $150m after crackdown on journalists
FT | 28-Apr-2014
Al Jazeera has lodged a $150m claim for compensation against Egypt, turning to an international investor arbitration tribunal in its latest bid to fight a crackdown by the government in Cairo.
keywords: Egypt, investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security, Qatar
Corporate conquest, global geopolitics: Intellectual property rights and bilateral investment treaties
Seedling | 17-Mar-2005
Examines how bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements which contain specific investment provisions reflect geopolitical concerns and redefine rights and privileges for transnational corporations, including with respect to commercial control over biodiversity through intellectual property rights.
keywords: biodiversity | biopiracy, geopolitics, GMOs, intellectual property, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security
FTA: Facing The Apocalypse?
| 12-Jan-2005
The graffiti on the walls in Quito ask if the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that the US is pushing on Colombia, Peru and Ecuador means that our days are numbered.
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food, Andean countries, biodiversity | biopiracy, corporate interests , Ecuador, energy, GMOs, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security, US
TLC: ¿Tenemos Los días Contados?
| 12-Jan-2005
En estos días las pintas quiteñas preguntan si con el Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) que EEUU está impulsando con Colombia, Perú y Ecuador ¿tenemos los días contados?
keywords: agriculture | farmers | food, Andean countries, biodiversity | biopiracy, corporate interests , Ecuador, energy, GMOs, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS, militarism | terrorism | security, US