The EU in the Global Investment Regime: Commission Entrepreneurship, Incremental Institutional Change...

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Johann Robert Basedow (European University Institute, Italy) Elaine Fahey

The EU in the Global Investment Regime

Commission Entrepreneurship, Incremental Institutional Change and Business Lethargy

Johann Robert Basedow (European University Institute, Italy), Elaine Fahey, David Howarth , Johann Robert Basedow (European University Institute, Italy)

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English

Routledge
12 December 2019

EU & European institutions; International trade; Political economy; Law & society; Company law

Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies

The European Union (EU) has emerged as a key actor in the global investment regime since the 1980s. At the same time, international investment policy and agreements, which govern international investment liberalisation, treatment and protection through investor-to-state dispute settlement, have become increasingly contentious in the European public debate.

This book provides an accessible introduction to international investment policy and seeks to explain how the EU became an actor in the global investment regime. It offers a detailed analysis of the EU’s participation in all major trade and investment negotiations since the 1980s and EU-internal competence debates to identify the causes behind the EU’s growing role in this policy domain. Building on principal-agent and historical institutionalist models of incremental institutional change, the book shows that Commission entrepreneurship was instrumental in the emergence of the EU as a key actor in the global investment regime. It refutes business-centred liberal intergovernmental explanations, which suggest that business lobbying made the Member States accept the EU’s growing role and competence in this domain. The book lends support to supranational and challenges intergovernmental thinking on European Integration.

This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of European and regional integration, EU foreign relations, EU trade and international investment law, business lobbying, and more broadly of international political economy.

By: Johann Robert Basedow (European University Institute Italy), Johann Robert Basedow (European University Institute, Italy)
Series edited by: Elaine Fahey, David Howarth
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367890575
ISBN 10: 0367890577
Series: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 12 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. European Integration Theory and the EU’s New International Investment Policy 3. An Introduction to International Investment and its Regime 4. An Overview of EU International Investment Policy-Making under the Treaty of Lisbon 5. The EU in Investment-Related Negotiations during the Uruguay Round 6. The EU in Investment-Related Negotiations on the Energy Charter Treaty 7. The EU in Negotiations on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Singapore Issues 8. Investment Disciplines in European Free Trade Agreements 9. The Evolution of the EU’s Legal Competences in International Investment Policy 10. Conclusion

Johann Robert Basedow is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and an Assistant Professor for International Political Economy at the London School of Economics, UK.