Bulletin #2 Corporate Power, the State, and Social Struggles: Notes from International Law and Political Economy

 Bulletin #2 Corporate Power, the State, and Social Struggles: Notes from International Law and Political Economy

CLACSO Working Group on Lex Mercatoria, Corporate Power and Human Rights
Bulletin: Corporate Power, the State, and Social Struggles. Notes from International Law and Political Economy
Year 2 – Issue #2 Investment protection and free trade agreements: the urgency of a debate
April 2024

CONTENTS

  1. Introduction. Investment protection and free trade agreements: the urgency of a debate
    Ana garcía
    Rodrigo Pascual
    Carla Poth

BLOCK 1: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL DEBATES ON INVESTMENT REGIMES

  1. Political economy of South-South relations. An analysis of two investment agreements between BRICS in Latin America and the Caribbean
    Ana Garcia
    María Elena Rodríguez
  2. Indirect expropriation in Latin American Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). An iceberg that defies time
    C. Tahimí Suárez Rodríguez
  3. The strategies of Latin American governments to reverse the effects of supranational arbitration on free trade and investment agreements
    María Teresa Gutiérrez Haces
  4. Two impasses of multilateralism years bilateral treaties. Resistance to mitigation of sovereignty
    Edna Aparecida da Silva
  5. Treaties protecting foreign investment and class struggle
    Rodrigo F. Pascual

BLOCK 2: CASE STUDIES OF FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS

  1. The Free Trade Agreement between Ecuador and China. The deepening of dependency
    David fajardo
  2. Mercosul-EU Agreement. Three points for discussion, in development perspective
    Adhemar S. Mineiro
    Cezar Augusto Miranda Guedes
  3. EU-Mercosur Agreement. The deepening of agribusiness and its impacts on the territories
    Carla Poth
  4. Are free trade agreements beneficial for Chile? An impact analysis based on free trade agreements with Chile's main trading partners
    Andrea Sato J.
    Gonzalo Durán S.
    Santiago Rosselot L.
    Francisca Barriga Y.
    Paula Vidal M.
  5. Impacts of economic liberalization in Paraguay. A socio-historical perspective
    Alhelí González Cáceres
    Luis Rojas Villagra
    Sintya Valdez
    Alan Fretez Bobadilla