International economic relations are governed by two bodies of international law. Trade in goods and services is the domain of international investment treaties (BITs) and preferential trade agreement (PTAs). These two different fields of international law share a large area of overlap: foreign investment in services, around 55% of all global direct investment, is covered by both investment agr…
Kisah-kisah pewayangan telah menjadi kekayaan budaya di Nusantara. Melalui wayang, para dalang membawakan berbagai cerita yang berisi tuntunan dan pelajaran hidup kepada para penontonnya. Mulai dari masalah kehidupan sehari-hari hingga tema sosial, politik, budaya, dan seterusnya. Ono Sarwono, seorang wartawan senior, juga menggunakan medium dunia wayang untuk tulisan-tulisannya dalam kolom Pig…
This analysis of how multi level networked governance has superseded the liberal system of interdependent states focuses on the role of law in mediating power and shows how lawyers have shaped the main features of capitalism, especially the transnational corporation. Its covers the main institutions regulating the world economy, including the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO and myriad other bodies…
One of the agreements concluded within the framework of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations is the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Including Trade in Counterfeit Goods, generally known as "TRIPs". (For the text see Appendix I of this book.). The TRIPs Agreement is the most far-reaching and comprehensive legal regime ever concluded at the mult…
This book discusses the different aspects of origin with a multidisciplinary perspective. It offers the first overview of the status of the negotiations on nonpreferential rules of origin under the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on rules of origin, after more than 10 years of negotiations, and its possible implications for other WTO Agreements. This book deals extensively with prefere…
The food and financial crises of 2008 and 2009 have pushed millins more people into poverty and hunger, while changing the parameters of international trade. Both crises have also challenged the fundamentals of WTO rules regulating agriculture, which had been designed to combat trade-distortions caused by artificially low-priced food commodities. This collections of essays examines to what exte…
Discussion of the governance of global trade and the multilateral trading system is too often dominated by developed country scholars and opinion-makers, with inadequate attention to developing-country perspectives. Making Global Trade Governance Work for Development gathers a diversity of developing country views on how to improve the governance of global trade and the WTO to beeter advence su…
Relations between developed and developing countries in the international trading system, whose norms, rules and procedures are set out in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), have been reaching an impasse. For a quarter of a century, the developed countries have been allowing, or encouraging, the developing countries to become contracting parties to the GATT without requiring the…
Having passed its thirteenth anniversary, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the most important international organisations in existence. As the only global intergovernmental organisation concerned with tje rules of trade between nations, it is the learding forum for trade negotiations and for the resolution of trade disputes. Its dispute settlement system has attracted enormo…
Given recent seismic upheavals in the world's money markets, an updated edition of an authotitative, reliable textbook on the international law of foreign investment has rarely been so timely. Sornarajah's classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect foreign investment by multinational actors and to control any misconduct on their part. It analyses treaty-based methods, e…