Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction and overview
Part I. Current Paradigms in the Economics and Political Economy of International Investment Activity
2. Investment policies for sustainable development: addressing policy challenges in the new investment landscape
3. Foreign direct investment and development: novel challenges
4. Actors in the international investment scenario: objectives, performance and advantages of affiliates of state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds
5. Investment treaties and globalisation of state capitalism: opportunities and constraints for host states
6. Reflections on the current paradigms of international investment activity
7. A southern perspective on the existing investment landscape
Part II. The Interaction between International Trade and Investment Regulation:
8. On the laws of attraction: examining the relationship between foreign investment and international trade
9. Investment and trade: the 'Lottie and Lisa' of international economic law?
10. International trade and investment: towards a common regime?
11. Perspectives on the interaction between international trade and investment regulation
Part III. The Challenge of Fostering Greater Coherence in International Investment Law
12. Practical and legal avenues to make substantive rules and disciplines of IIAs converge
13. Consitency in the interpretation of substative investment rules: is it achirvable?
14. Coherence, convergence and consistency in international investment law
15. The challenge of fostering greater coherence in international investment law
Part IV. The Policy and Rule-Making Challenges Arising from the Growth in Investment Litigation
16. ICSID at a crossroads: some thoughts and recommendations for improving the dispute settlement system
17. Rules for investor–state mediation: draft prepared by the International Bar Association State Mediation subcommittee
18. Complementing investment- state dispute resolution: a conceptual framework for investor- state conflict managment
19. The growth in investment litigation: perspectives and challenges
20. Different approaches to address challenges arising from increased investor–state litigation
V. The Quest for an Adequate Balance between Investment Protection and Liberalisation and Other Public Policy Objectives
21. Sustainable development and international investment law: a harmonious view from economic
22. GATT Article XX and international investment law
23. The inclusion of GATT Article XX exceptions in IIAs – a potentially risky policy
24. Managing expectations: beyond formal adjudication
Part VI. From an Uneven International Investment Regime towards a Coherent International Investment System: The Way Forward
25. Coherence and consistency in international investment law
26. Perspectives for investment arbitration: consistency as a policy goal?
27. Towards a coherent international investment system: key issues in the reform of international investment law
28. The way forward for the international investment
29. The way forward for the international investment regime: lessons from the past – perspectives for the future
Index