Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise
Investment Treaties and the Rule of Law Promise
Ayelet Berman, National University of Singapore
Investment treaties are said to improve the rule of law in the states which enter into them. Fearing claims, governments will internalise international investment obligations into their decision-making processes, resulting in positive spill-over effects on the rule of law. Such arguments have never been backed by empirical research. This book presents an analytical framework for thinking about the internalisation of international commitments in governmental decision making that takes account of the complexities of governance. In so doing, it provides a typology of processes whereby international treaty obligations may be internalised by governments and identifies factors which may affect whether and to what extent international commitments are internalised in governmental decision making. This framework serves as the background for the main body of the book in which empirical case studies address whether and how a select group of governments in Asia internalise international investment treaty obligations in their decision-making.
- Presents an original analytical framework for thinking about the internalisation of international legal obligations
- Illustrates the interaction of international law and domestic governance in both theoretical and empirical terms
- Provides in-depth empirical evidence regarding governmental decision making in eight Asian countries
Product details
April 2025Paperback
9781009153003
376 pages
229 × 152 mm
Not yet published - available from April 2025
Table of Contents
- 1. The internalisation of investment treaties and the rule of law promise N. Jansen Calamita and Ayelet Berman
- 2. Investment treaties and the rule of law in India Prabhash Ranjan
- 3. Investment treaties and the rule of law in Indonesia John Lumbantobing
- 4. Investment treaties and the rule of law in Korea Younsik Kim
- 5. The impact of investment treaties on the rule of law in Myanmar Jonathan Bonnitcha
- 6. Investment treaties and the rule of law in Singapore Dafina Atanasova
- 7. Investment treaties and the rule of law: the case of Sri Lanka Sachintha Dias
- 8. Investment treaties and the rule of law in Thailand Teerawat Wongkaew
- 9. Investment treaties and the rule of law in Viet Nam Tran Viet Dung
- 10. Assessing the rule of law promise: The impact of investment treaties on national governance N. Jansen Calamita and Ayelet Berman.
