Table of Contents

1. Editor’s Introduction: Patterns and Dynamics of Asia’s Growing Share of FDI Part 1: Internationalisation Strategy of Emerging Asian firms: Examples from China and India 2. The Rise of Chinese Multinational Enterprises 3. International Acquisitions and the Globalization of Firms from India 4. The reshaping of global capitalism by MNEs from Emerging Countries Joël Ruet Part 2: Regional and National Initiatives Affecting Trade and Investment in Asia 5. Towards China’s Greater Influence on the World's Finances: A Legal Analysis of Chinese Overseas Direct Investment 6. Chinese BITs in the 21st Century: Protecting Chinese Investment 7. Investment Liberalization in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Progress, Regress or Stumbling Bloc? 8. Economic Impact of Investment Provisions in Asian RTAs Sebastien Miroudot Part 3: Asian Interest in Multilateral Rules on Trade and Investment: A New Paradigm? 9. Dealing with the Noodle Bowl Effect in Asia: Consolidation, Multilateralization, Harmonization or Dilution? 10. India’s Multilayered FDI regulation: Between Resistance to Multilateral Negotiations and Unilateral Proactivism 11. Conditions and Ways of Restoring Investment to the WTO Negotiation Agenda: Establishing a Linkage between BITs and WTO