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1 - National Governance and Investment Treaties

Josef Ostřanský  and
Facundo Pérez Aznar
Josef Ostřanský
Affiliation:
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Facundo Pérez Aznar
Affiliation:
Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement
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Summary

This introductory chapter situates the book within existing debates about the effects of investment treaties on national governance. The book’s methodology and conceptual framework in socio-legal and ethnographic approaches to law is described, and the typology of investment treaties’ impact on national governance used in the book explained: ideological-discursive effects and formal-institutional effects. Finally, the structure of the book is outlined.

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investment treatiesgood governancenational governancemethodologysocio-legal studiesextended case methodmulti-sited ethnographynarrativisationideologydiscourseinstitutional impact
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National Governance and Investment Treaties
Between Constraint and Empowerment
 , pp. 1 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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