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The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: US Postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties. By Kenneth J. Vandevelde. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 592 + xii pages.

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The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: US Postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation Treaties. By Kenneth J. Vandevelde. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 592 + xii pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

DMYTRO GALAGAN*
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LLM Candidate, University of Victoria
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Copyright © The Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international 2018 

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References

1 Ahmad Ghouri, Interaction and Conflict of Treaties in Investment Arbitration (Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2015) at 24; Jeswald Salacuse, “BIT by BIT: The Growth of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Their Impact on Foreign Investment in Developing Countries” (1990) 24:3 Intl Law 655 at 655.

2 Cynthia Day Wallace, The Multinational Enterprise and Legal Control: Host State Sovereignty in an Era of Economic Globalization, 2nd ed (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2002) at 1114.

3 Kenneth J Vandevelde, The First Bilateral Investment Treaties: US Postwar Friendship, Commerce and Navigation Treaties (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017) at 544.

4 Kenneth J Vandevelde, Bilateral Investment Treaties: History, Policy, and Interpretation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); Kenneth J Vandevelde, US International Investment Agreements (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009); Kenneth J Vandevelde, United States Investment Treaties: Policy and Practice (Boston: Kluwer Law and Taxation, 1992).

5 Vandevelde, supra note 3 at 5–6.

6 Ibid at 4–5.

7 Ibid at 1.

8 Ibid at 28.

9 Ibid at 19–20.

10 Ibid at 29–44.

11 Ibid at 56.

12 Reported in Harold Hinton, “Churchill Assails Soviet Policy,” New York Times (5 March 1946).

13 Vandevelde, supra note 3 at 98.

14 United States Department of State, “Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 2017” (2017) at 491–92.

15 William Diebold, “Reflections on the International Trade Organization” (1994) 14:2 N Ill U L Rev 335; Richard Toye, “The International Trade Organization” in Martin Daunton, Amrita Narlikar & Robert Stern, eds, The Oxford Handbook on The World Trade Organization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) 85. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1947, 30 October 1947, 55 UNTS 194 (entered into force 1 January 1948).

16 Vandevelde, supra note 3 at 169–77.

17 Ibid at 177–78.

18 Harry S Truman, “Inaugural Address,” Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States of America (20 January 1949), Hein Online, online: <https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.presidents/ppp049000&i=150>.

19 Vandevelde, supra note 3 at 184–98.

20 Ibid at 222.

21 Ibid at 226.

22 Ibid at 253–56.

23 Ibid at 295, 376–78.

24 Ibid at 383–84.

25 Ibid at 385–86.

26 18 March 1965, 575 UNTS 159 (entered into force 14 October 1966).

27 Vandevelde, supra note 3 at 537–44.

28 17 December 1992, (1993) 32 ILM 289 (entered into force 1 January 1994).

29 Vandevelde, supra note 3 at 544.

30 Ibid at 8.

31 John Coyle & Jason Webb Yackee, “Reviving the Treaty of Friendship: Enforcing International Investment Law in U.S. Courts” (2017) 49 Ariz St LJ 61 at 62.

32 John Coyle, “The Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation in the Modern Era” (2013) 51 Colum J Transnatl L 302 at 305–06.

33 [1989] ICJ Rep 15.

34 Andrew Newcombe & Lluís Paradell, Law and Practice of Investment Treaties: Standards of Treatment (Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2009) at 37–38.