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International Investment Agreements: Building the New Colonialism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Howard Mann
Howard Mann*
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Private practice, international law, Ottawa, Canada; International Institute for Sustainable Development
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NAFTA’s Investment Chapter: Dynamic Laboratory, Failed Experiments, and Lessons for the FTAA
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 97 , 2003 , pp. 247 - 250
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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References

1 See Free Trade Agreement, June 6, 2003, U.S.-Chile, chs. 10, 19, available at <http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/chile/final/index.htm>; Free Trade Agreement, May 6, 2003, U.S.-Sing.,chs. 15, 18, available at <http://www.ustr.gov/new/fta/singapore.htm>.

2 Brower, Charles N., A Crisis of Legitimacy, Nat’l L. J., Oct. 7, 2002, at B9 Google Scholar.

3 Most germane to the present topic, these rights have been used with increasing frequency to challenge local regulatory measures designed to protect human and environmental health, clear indicators of the relationship of economic rights to sustainable development requirements.

4 E.g., World Bank, Global Economic Prospects and the Developing Countries (2002), available at <http://www .worldbank.org/prospects/gep2002/full.htm> Eswar Prasad et al., Effects of Financial Globalization on Developing Countries: Some Empirical Evidence (Mar. 17, 2003), available at <http://www.imf.org/extemal/np/res/docs/2003/031703.htm>.

5 This is not just a wealthy Northern nongovernmental organization viewpoint. See, e.g., M. Sonorajah, The Clash of Globalization and the International Law of Foreign Investment, Simon Reisman Lecture at the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (Sept 12, 2002), available at <http:www.carleton.ca/ctpl/papers/sornarajah.doc>.

6 See Report of the Expert Meeting on the Development Dimension of FDI: Policies to Enhance the Role of FDI in Support of the Competitiveness of the Enterprise Sector and the Economic Performance of the Host Economies, Taking into Account the Trade/Investment Interface, in the National and International Context, UNCTAD TD/B/com.2/48, TD/B/com.2/EM.12/3 (2002), available at <http://www.unctad.org/en/docs//c2eml2d3_en.pdf>.

7 See the portal to the documents at <http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/invest_e/invest_e.htm>.

8 Doha Ministerial Declaration, WTO Doc. WT/MIN(01)/DEC/1, Nov. 20, 2001, available at <http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_e.htm>.

9 See James Winpenny, Report of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure 2 (2003), available at <http://www.worldwatercouncil.org>.

10 See Aguas del Tunari S.A. v. Bolivia, ICSID Case No. ARB/02/3 (pending matter).

11 In re Uncitral Arbitration between Ronald S. Lauder and Czech Rep.; In re Uncitral Arbitration between CME Czech Republic B. V. v. Czech Rep., both available at <http://www.mfcr.cz/index_en.php>.

12 Howard Mann, Konrad von Moltke, Luke Peterson & Aaron Cosbey, Investment, Doha and the WTO, (2003), available at <http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2003/investment_riia_iisd.pdf>.