Effects of Armed Conflict on Investment Treaties, Hardcover by Ackermann, Tob...

by Tobias Ackermann

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Effects of Armed Conflict on Investment Treaties, Hardcover by Ackermann, Tobias, ISBN 1009207830, ISBN-13 9781009207836, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Armed conflict has disastrous effects on societies. Lives are lost, civilians displaced, infrastructure destroyed, and societal, political, and economic institutions damaged. Alongside humanitarian costs stands the economic impact of conflict with potentially long-lasting and substantial effects on the state's economic growth and development that, in turn, can lead to prolonged instability and resurgence in violence. Even in case a conflict party's territory is not the theatre of military operations, the respective state is still affected by its engagement in hostilities and, depending on the scale of the conflict, may be forced to adopt more or less extensive emergency measures to cope with the situation. Among those affected by conflict and attendant state responses are foreign investors, be it individuals or corporations, their employees as well as their property. The regime of international investment law accords foreign investors and investments specific protection from encroachments by state authorities and violent threats by third parties-protection that becomes, from the perspective of investors, all the more relevant and, from the perspective of states, all the more difficult to provide in times of armed conflict. In light of the increasing prevalence of investment treaties as well as the global flow of fore

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781009207836
• Condition: Fine

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