Full Description
This book discusses the major features of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) and its likely impact on investment liberalisation in China, Europe's largest trading partner. The principal aim of the book is to evaluate the progress of the investment liberalisation efforts pursued by the negotiators of the CAI.
Part I, "Geopolitical Origins and Negotiations of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment", examines the interests, motivations, and expectations of the parties during the negotiation process and following the agreement in principle on the CAI. Part II, "Substantive Issues of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment", considers specific focus areas that are critical for the mutual opening of the European and Chinese markets for foreign investors. Part III, "Dispute Resolution Mechanisms of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment", reviews the applicability and effectiveness of the available dispute settlement and treaty enforcement mechanisms provided for in the CAI including investor-state dispute settlement, state-to-state dispute settlement, and non-adversarial methods.
The book offers a combination of theoretical perspectives that will be of interest to international economic law scholars and provides practical insights on how the CAI is likely to shape the investment landscape for European businesses in China.
Contents
Introduction: The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment and a Thorny Path towards Investment Liberalization.- Part I Geopolitical Origins and Negotiations of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.- The Political Economy of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Balancing the European Union's Economic Interests.- The Political Economy of China and the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.- The European Union and China: In Search of Positioning and Exercising Normative Power in the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.- Part II: EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Substantive Issues.- Pre-Entry National Treatment in EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment - An Open Sesame to the Chinese Market?.- The Disciplines of State-Owned Enterprises in the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Assessment, Implications and Directions.- The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Disciplining Competition Law Enforcement in China?.- Intellectual Property Dimension of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: The EU Approach against Non-Market-Mediated International Technology Transfer.- Regulating Subsidies in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Implications for Global Subsidies Reform.- Disputing Personal Data in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.- Part III: EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Procedural Issues.- The Future of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.- A New Dish of "CAI" for State-to-State Dispute Settlement in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.- Never Fear to Negotiate: Options for Non-Adversarial Dispute Resolution in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment.
