- Project Assistants: Jaivir Singh, Pablo Pérez Aznar Facundo, Edna Ramirez-Robles, Debesh Panda
- Timeline: November 2013 – May 2017
- Keywords: anthropology of state, international law, empirical studies, rule of law, international dispute settlement
- Funding Organisation: SNSF
Abstract
This project aims to explore what effects investment treaties actually have on the ground, what kinds of governmental decision-making they are used to legitimate, what policy-making they are able to facilitate or constrain, and in what ways they are able to, or perceived to, do so in different countries. Whereas existing research in the field has focused mainly on understanding investors’ perceptions, we would like to reverse the approach to explore what perceptions international investment treaties create in domestic decision-makers.
