The topicality of the international political economy is determined by the complexity and
dynamism of transformation processes in the world economic system, which are develo** …

Gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita, and population are central to the study of
politics and economics broadly, and conflict processes in particular. Despite the prominence …

Democracy is often fragile, especially in states recovering from civil conflict. To protect
emerging democracies, many scholars and practitioners recommend political powersharing …

Abstract Information voids reflect a lack of publicly available information about a country's
investment climate, and represent the information problems associated with institutional …

The salience of judicial institutions in democratic and nondemocratic countries has
increased, making it important to have women on these powerful and visible decision …

A growing body of literature scrutinizes the harmful consequences of capital flight to offshore
financial destinations. While financial integration is a well-known facilitator of capital flight …

This article analyzes an understudied and contested form of government taking, transfer
restriction, which has supplanted expropriation as the most ubiquitous and costly type of …

In this article we depart from the classic model of foreign direct investment (FDI)
determinants and examine the effect of sociohistorical factors on FDI. We argue that past …

Research on international election observation shows that observation reduces fraud,
encourages participation, and boosts confidence in the election. However, this conventional …

Globally, 74 countries have domestic investment laws that mention investor-state arbitration
and 42 of these laws provide consent to it. That is, they give foreign investors the right to …