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Book SynopsisThe BRICS in the New International Legal Order on Investment: Reformers or Disruptors is written by international experts with BRICS backgrounds. The book investigates why and how the BRICS countries modernize their approach to the investment treaty regime. The chapters are organized by BRICS countries and discuss whether they can develop a common approach to investment treaties as well as what these countries will bring to the investment treaty regime in the future. The volume provides important perspectives on how the BRICS, an emerging power hub in international society, engage in the international legal order.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Contributors 1 Introduction Congyan Cai and Yifei Wang 2 Investment Facilitation and the Contribution of the Brazilian Approach to the Reform of the Investment Treaties Regime Felipe Hees and Henrique Choer Moraes 3 Russia’s Foreign Investment Policy: Recent Developments and Future Trends in Terra (In)Cognita Dmitry K. Labin and Alena V. Soloveva 4 India’s Investment Treaties: How an Emerging Economic Giant Makes International Commitments Xiaoxia Lin 5 The “Belt & Road” Initiative and the New Landscape of China’s ISDS Policy and Practice Huiping Chen 6 Investor Protection in South Africa – Eroded Bit by Bit? Engela C. Schlemmer 7 Recalibrating Policy Space in Bilateral Investment Treaties: Is There a Common B(R)ICS Approach? Andreas Buser 8 Investment Barriers, Investment Facilitation and the BRICS Countries’ Investment Treaty Policies and Practice Xiuyan Fei 9 Conclusion Congyan Cai
