Haley Sweetland Edwards

Broschiertes Buch

Shadow Courts

The Tribunals That Rule Global Trade

Beschreibung

"Edwards offers a ... look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements that is designed to protect the financial interests of global corporations against the governments of sovereign states. She [posits] that Investor-State Dispute Settlement --a 'shadow court' that allows corporations to sue a nation outside its own court system--has tilted the balance of power on the global stage"--Amazon.com.

Autor

Haley Sweetland Edwards is a correspondent at Time. Previously, she was an editor at the Washington Monthly, where she wrote about policy and regulation. From 2009 to 2012, she lived and worked in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union, where she wrote for The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, among other publications. She studied philosophy at Yale and journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia Global Reports
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 123mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9780997126402
• ISBN-10: 099712640X
• Artikelnr.: 44468456