The first bilateral investment treaties : U.S. postwar friendship, commerce, and navigation treaties /

This book is the first and only history of the U.S. postwar Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (FCN) treaty program, and focuses on the investment-related provisions of those treaties. This author explains the original understanding of the language of this vast network of agreements which have bee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vandevelde, Kenneth J. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Investments, Foreign > Law and legislation > United States. International and municipal law > United States. United States > Foreign relations > Treaties. United States > Commercial treaties. Droit international et droit interne > États-Unis. États-Unis > Accords commerciaux. LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. Diplomatic relations International and municipal law Investments, Foreign > Law and legislation United States United States of America. Treaties of friendship, commerce and navigation. Bilateral investment treaties. Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law. Law. Electronic books. Commercial treaties Treaties Treaties. Traités.
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Table of Contents:

U.S. postwar foreign investment policy
Launching the U.S. postwar FCN [friendship, commerce and navigation] treaty program
Seeking a multilateral treaty on investment : the International Trade Organization
Abandoning the International Trade Organization
The FCN treaties become investment treaties
Negotiating the first bilateral investment treaties : the Truman years
Negotiating the first bilateral investment treaties : after the Truman years
The international law of foreign investment in the FCN treaties
Appendix : Excerpts from the 1955 Standard Draft U.S. FCN Treaty.