European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2010

The first volume of the new Yearbook tries to catch the broadness of contemporary International Economic Law. In part I, it brings together articles on a variety of subjects, reaching from exchange rate manipulation and financial market supervision over international investment law including the growing investment protectionism to recent developments of the external economic constitution of the European Union and the relationship between climate change and International Economic Law. Part II covers the major regional economic integration developments around the globe, analysed in different articles covering the different regions. Part III informs about recent activities in some of the major global economic institutions. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 International Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets After the Crisis....Pages 3-29 Don Yuan: China’s “Selfish” Exchange Rate Policy and International Economic Law....Pages 31-51 Protection of or Protection Against Foreign Investment?....Pages 53-75 The Nascent International Law on Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) Clauses in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs)....Pages 77-101 Foreign Investment in Germany: Restrictions Based on Public Security Concerns and Their Compatibility with EU Law....Pages 103-122 Going Global? The EU Common Commercial Policy After Lisbon....Pages 123-151 Services Trade Liberalisation and Regulation: New Developments and Old Problems....Pages 153-178 Applying European Competition Law to International Organizations: The Case of OPEC....Pages 179-204 Mitigating Climate Change Through Price Instruments: An Overview of the Legal Issues in a World of Unequal Carbon Prices....Pages 205-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Regional Trade Agreements in the World Trade Order....Pages 227-243 The European Union and Regional Trade Agreements....Pages 245-268 Regional Economic Integration in the Middle East and North Africa: A Primer....Pages 269-296 North American Regional Economic Integration: Recent Trends and Developments....Pages 297-311 Integration in Latin America....Pages 313-330 The ASEAN Economic Community Under the ASEAN Charter; Its External Economic Relations and Dispute Settlement Mechanisms....Pages 331-357 Front Matter....Pages 360-360 The Doha Development Agenda at a Crossroads: What Are the Remaining Obstacles to the Conclusion of the Round?....Pages 361-390 Recent Legal Developments in the International Monetary Fund....Pages 391-404 The G8 and the Heiligendamm Process: A Group’s Architecture in Flux....Pages 405-416 Front Matter....Pages 418-418 Jens-Christian Gaedtke, Politische Auftragsvergabe und Welthandelsrecht....Pages 419-421 Markus Gehring, Nachhaltigkeit durch Verfahren im Welthandelsrecht. Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsprüfungen und die WTO....Pages 423-426 Annotation The first volume of the new Yearbook tries to catch the broadness of contemporary International Economic Law. In part I, it brings together articles on a variety of subjects, reaching from exchange rate manipulation and financial market supervision over international investment law including the growing investment protectionism to recent developments of the external economic constitution of the European Union and the relationship between climate change and International Economic Law. Part II covers the major regional economic integration developments around the globe, analysed in different articles covering the different regions. Part III informs about recent activities in some of the major global economic institutions