1st Edition

Promoting and Managing International Investment Towards an Integrated Policy Approach

Edited By J Anthony VanDuzer, Patrick Leblond Copyright 2020
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an overview of international investment policy and policy-making, drawing upon perspectives from law, economics, international business, and political science. International investment is a complex phenomenon with significant effects worldwide. Developing effective policies and strategies to attract investment in sufficient quantities and marshal it to contribute to... Read more

Acknowledgments

List of acronyms

Notes on contributors

1 Introduction to International Investment Policy and Rationale for an Interdisciplinary Approach

J Anthony VanDuzer, Patrick Leblond, and Stephen Gelb

Part I   International Investment’s Changing Context

2 Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the 21st Century

Ari Van Assche

3 Actors, Institutions, and Policy in Host Countries

Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer

4 State-Owned Enterprises and Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Economic AssessmentSteven Globerman, Phillip Hensyel, and Daniel Shapiro

Part II   Promoting International Investment

5 The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment and International Investment Agreements

Eugene Beaulieu and Kelly O’Neill

6 Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: Location Branding and Marketing

Leila Hamzaoui-Essoussi, Nicolas Papadopoulos, and Alia El Banna

7 FDI Policy Advocacy and Investor Targeting

Matthew Durban

8 Tax Competition as an Investment Promotion Tool

Allison Christians and Marco Garofalo

Part III   Managing Foreign Investment

9 National Security and the Political Economy of International Investment Policy

Patrick Leblond and Sébastien Labrecque

10 International Investment Agreements

Lukas Vanhonnaeker

11 Investor–State Dispute Settlement

J Anthony VanDuzer and Patrick Dumberry

12 Social and Environmental Issues in Foreign Direct Investment: A Legal and Policy Perspective Lorenzo Cotula

Part IV   Conclusion

13 Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Toward an Integrated Approach to International Investment Policy

J Anthony VanDuzer, Patrick Leblond, and Stephen Gelb

Index 

Biography

J Anthony VanDuzer is a Professor and Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in the Common Law Section, as well as an Adjunct Research Professor at the Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Previously, he was Vice Dean of Research at the University of Ottawa. He has also taught at the Queen’s University International Studies Centre in England, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Germany, and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He was a Member of the Academic Advisory Council to Canada’s Deputy Minister for International Trade from 2002 to 2006. Professor VanDuzer has written widely on investment and trade in services issues and participated in technical assistance projects in these areas in transition and developing economies around the world. His most recent book on investment law is J Anthony VanDuzer, Penelope Simons, and Graham Mayeda, Integrating Sustainable Development into International Investment Agreements: A Guide for Developing Country Negotiators (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2013).

Patrick Leblond is CN – Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Research Associate at CIRANO, and Affiliated Professor of International Business at HEC Montréal. Dr Leblond is an expert on economic governance and policy with a particular focus on Canada, North America, and Europe. He has published extensively on financial and monetary integration, banking regulation, international trade, and business–government relations. He is the co-editor, with Demosthenes Ioannou and Arne Niemann, of European Integration in Times of Crisis: Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). Prior to moving to Ottawa, he taught international business at HEC Montréal and was director of the Réseau économie internationale (REI) at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM). Before embarking on his academic career, he worked in accounting and auditing for Ernst & Young as well as in corporate finance and strategy consulting for Arthur Andersen & Co and SECOR Consulting.