1st Edition

National Security Review of Foreign Investment A Comparative Legal Analysis of China, the United States and the European Union

By Cheng Bian Copyright 2020
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years, China, the US, and the EU and its Member States have either promulgated new national laws and regulations or drastically revised existing ones to exert more rigorous government control over inward foreign direct investment (FDI). Such government control pertains to the establishment of an ex-ante review regime of FDI in the host state in sectors that are considered as... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction;

PART I ESTABLISHING A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK;

Chapter 2 The conceptualization of national security;

Chapter 3 The jurisprudential foundation of national security review of FDI;

Chapter 4 A quest for theoretical principles establishing the national security review regime of FDI;

PART II COUNTRY-SPECIFIC STUDIES;

Chapter 5 The national security review regime of China;

Chapter 6 The national security review regime of the US;

Chapter 7 The national security review regime in the EU;

PART III COMPARISON, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS;

Chapter 8 Revealing similarities and differences;

Chapter 9 An evaluation to the comparative results;

Chapter 10 Conclusions and policy recommendations;

Biography

Cheng Bian is an academic researcher at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research area covers international investment law; international investment dispute settlement; Chinese law and in particular Chinese foreign investment law; and comparative law. He holds a PhD in law from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Prior to his doctorate, he obtained a Master’s degree in international law and a Bachelor’s degree in Chinese law from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China.