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The Emerging Foreign Direct Investment Regim e

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

José E. Alvarez*
Affiliation:
Columbia Law School

Abstract

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The “New” Regime of Foreign Direct Investment
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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