Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy: The Politics of Investment Treaties in Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9781107552012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 263 str.

Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen

Opis

This book examines how developing countries often sign up to highly potent rules underwriting economic globalisation without even realising it.

Recenzje

'All scholars of international politics and perhaps others should read this interesting book. It makes valuable contributions, both specific and general. It develops an original, convincing explanation of the phenomenally rapid spread, especially during the 1990s, of bilateral investment treaties [BITs] involving developing countries, and of the treaties' puzzling content. It also demonstrating an insightful way to check and enrich rational choice analyses of many other political phenomena.' John S. Odell, International Relations

Spis treści

Preface: the curious case of Pakistan; 1. Unanticipated consequences; 2. Bounded rationality and the spread of investment treaties; 3. A difficult beginning; 4. Promoting investment treaties; 5. A less then rational competition; 6. Narcissistic learning; 7. Letting down the guard: a case study; 8. Expanding the bounds of rationality in the investment regime.