International Relations & Development
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() After Pearl Harbor“Business as Usual” From: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines how in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour (1941-1942) the relationship between Hitler’s regime and American big business still existed even … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() Selling Off Our CountryFrom: Living with Uncle |
Examines the high number of major corporations in Canada that are majority foreign owned or controlled and what this means for Canada | Mel Hurtig | 11 | 2006 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() The price tag for democracyFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Chinese investors can use the FIPA to challenge anything that a legislature or government or court in Canada does. They may not win, but the ability to sue in this way is a powerful tool by … | Gus Van Harten | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() A Progressive American PerspectiveFrom: Living with Uncle |
Through looking at NAFTA this chapter looks at what a progressive alternative integration agenda would look like, while also doing our best to oppose the regressive kind of deep integration being … | Thea Lee | 7 | 2006 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Settlements of lawsuits, known and unknownFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes some murky NAFTA settlements to demonstrate why we should be wary of FIPA | Gus Van Harten | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() An example of regulatory chillFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Opponents of investor-state arbitration have long warned that it may lead to so-called “regulatory chill,” by creating financial risks for countries that deter responsible regulation … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() Outcomes of lawsuitsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
it is next to impossible to evaluate what is happening in settlements. Even if we know that a settlement exists, its terms are rarely public. The terms should be public, at least in a democratic … | Gus Van Harten | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() What if it was a judicial process?From: Sold Down the Yangtze |
One of the key flaws in investor-state arbitration is that it leads to final decisions about issues of great importance for countries (and foreign investors too), but does not use a judicial … | Gus Van Harten | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() The roller coaster continuesFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Awards of compensation for foreign investors have risen to billions of dollars, and now tens of billions. Lawyers have developed new and creative arguments for compensating foreign investors, … | Gus Van Harten | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |
From ![]() The FIPA and the courtsFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
This example shows how investor-state arbitrators can review a country’s highest courts, and order its people to pay for whatever the arbitrators order as a protection for foreign … | Gus Van Harten | 14 | 2015 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() The legal challenge to the FIPA, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
The public opposition to the China FIPA included thousands of people who took steps to support an effort by the Hupacasath First Nation, an aboriginal community on Vancouver Island in British … | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() The legal challenge to the FIPA, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Through focusing on the arguments of the government’s foreign investment expert, J. Christopher Thomas, and how the courts favoured his opinions Van Harten outlines how the legal challenge … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() A reply to the charges of bias, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Van Harten outline how his expert witness my opinion was apparently doomed from the start because I had previously expressed views about investor-state arbitration and the FIPA. | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() A reply to the charges of bias, part twoFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
after Chief Justice Crampton dismissed my opinion in his judgment, I took more of an interest in him. I lay out aspects of his background here, not to suggest that Chief Justice Crampton was … | Gus Van Harten | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() The FIPA media blitzFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes the media’s poorly informed spin on the FIPA and how this fueled government led propaganda | Gus Van Harten | 11 | 2015 | $1.10 Add |
From ![]() Andrew Coyne, part oneFrom: Sold Down the Yangtze |
Analyzes arguments made by Andrew Coyne in his role as a columnist for the National Post | Gus Van Harten | 6 | 2015 | $0.60 Add |