Resources
Extended Bibliographies
Political risk and international investment law. Literature collection, 2010–2021 (527 references), from Moehlecke and Wellhausen, “Political Risk and International Investment Law,” Annual Review of Political Science 25 (2022).
Political economy of foreign direct investment. Literature collection, 2013–2019 (719 references), from Wellhausen, “Foreign Direct Investment,” entry in the Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy (eds. Pevehouse and Seabrooke, 2021).
ISDS Data
Collections of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) data. As general ISDS data sources have become more accessible, these collections focus on variables unavailable elsewhere. Please get in touch with questions.
“International Investment Law and Foreign Direct Reinvestment.” International Organization 73(4): 839–858. 2019.
Advantage of these data: Includes a code for “reinvestment”: whether claimant(s) left and reentered the host country after arbitration, stayed during and after, and/or were present in 2015 (accurate as of 2018).
“Judicial Economy and Moving Bars in International Investment Arbitration.” (with Leslie Johns and Calvin Thrall) Review of International Organizations 15(4): 923–945. 2020.
Advantage of these data: Codes the particular legal claims made by claimant(s), including whether each claim was adjudicated and its outcome (accurate as of 2018).
“Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement.” (with Carolina Moehlecke and Calvin Thrall) International Studies Quarterly 67:1. 2023.
Advantage of these data: Codes the underlying government regulation/policy the investor claims caused the violation, and the status of that regulation after arbitration (accurate as of 2019).
“Recent Trends in Investor-State Dispute Settlement.” Journal of International Dispute Settlement 7(1): 117–135. 2016.
Advantage of these data: Coding rules differ from UNCTAD’s: these specifically include arbitrations brought under contractual ISDS clauses and domestic law, not only treaty-based claims (accurate as of 2016).
“Bondholders v. Direct Investors? Competing Responses to Expropriation.” International Studies Quarterly 59(4): 750–764. 2015.
Advantage of these data: For a subset of countries, codes whether the host country earned revenue from the action that triggered the arbitration, drawing on legal filings, news, and reports (including arbitrations whose filings are not public; accurate as of 2013).
“Investor-State Disputes: When Can Governments Break Contracts?.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 59(2): 239–261. 2015.
The Shield of Nationality: When Governments Break Contracts with Foreign Firms. Cambridge University Press. 2015.
Advantage of these data: Includes nuanced nationality identifiers for claimant(s), accounting for legal and non-legal conceptions of the claimant’s home country (accurate as of 2013).