This book analyses actual and potential normative (whether legislative or contractual) conflicts and complex transnational disputes related to state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) operations and how they are interwoven with the problem of foreign direct investment. Moreover, SCEs also fall within the remit of international political economy, international economics and other SCE-related fields that go beyond purely legal or regulatory matters. In this connection, research on such economic and political determinants of SCE's operations greatly informs and supplements the state of knowledge on how to best regulate cross-border aspects of SCE's and is also be covered in this book.

The book also aims to analyse the SCE phenomenon which includes a wide panoply of entities that have various structures with different degrees of control by states at the central or regional level, and that critically discuss the above-mentioned overlapping legal economic and politicalsystems which can emerge under various shades of shadows casted by governmental umbrellas (i.e., the control can be exercised through ownership, right to appoint the management, and special-voting-rights). The chapters in this book are grouped, so as to address cross-border investment by and in SCE, into four coherent major parts, namely --- (i) the regulatory framework of state capitalism: laws, treaties, and contracts; (ii) economic and institutional expansion of state capitalism; (iii) the accountability of state capitalism: exploring the forms of liabilities; and (iv) regional and country perspectives. Contributions address the core theme from a broad range of SCE and international economic regulations, including but not limited to competition law, WTO law, investment law, and financial/monetary law. They also cover the new emerging generation of Free Trade Agreements (EU-Vietnam FTA, EU China investment treaty, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership; and the coordination between treaty systems). The book is a valuable addition and companion for courses, such as international trade law, international law of foreign investment, transnational law, international and economic development, world politics, law of preferential trade agreements, international economics, and economics of development.

Provides an updated analysis of the international activities of state-controlled entities Contains a comprehensive analysis of the most important issues including norms set in international treaties Throws new light on the regulatory, economic, and political dimensions of the activities of state-controlled entities

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**Julien Chaisse, **Ph.D. (2007), is Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong (CityU HK) and Advisory Board Member, Asian Academy of International Law (AAIL). His publications include 'China's International Investment Strategy' (2019), 'The Regulation of Global Water Services' (2017) and 'International Economic Law and Governance' (2016); and Springer published volumes - 'Paradigm Shift in International Economic Law Rule-Making, and 'Asia's Changing International Investment Regime' (both co-edited and published in 2017)'. Professor Chaisse is also a co-editor in chief of a Springer Living Reference - Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy.

J drzej Górski, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow at the City University of Hong Kong. Formerly research associate at UCL Australia (2017), Endeavour Research Fellow at MLS (2014) and associate at CMS (2010-2012). His publications include 'The Belt and Road Initiative, Law, Economics, And Politics' (Nijhoff 2018, eds with J. Chaisse), 'The Law and Policy of New Eurasian Regionalization: Economic Integration, Trade, and Investment in the Post-Soviet and Greater Eurasian Space' (Nijhoff 2021, eds with A. Aseeva) and 'Palgrave Handbook of Social license to operate and Energy Transitions' (2023, eds with G. Wood and G. Mete).

Dini Sejko (PhD 2019) is a research associate at the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, a research affiliate at The Fletcher Network for Sovereign Wealth and Global Capital, Tufts University, and a mediator (MCIArb). Dr Sejko's research focuses on international economic law and the governance of state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). For his research on the impact of UN sanctions on the governance of the Libyan SWF, Dr Sejko received the Society of International Economic Law PEPA Best Paper Award 2018. He is the author of several articles, book chapters, and a series of policy reports on the Belt and Road in Southeast Asiä (IEMS-UOB 2020).

Inhalt
Introduction.- Part 1. Chapter 2. The Latest Regulatory Regime of SOEs under International Trade and Investment Treaties.- Chapter 3. Working title: Global liberalization of PPPs.- Chapter 4. Current Chinese corporate governance reform on state-owned enterprises and its impacts on their overseas investment.- Chapter 5. Legal issues of Going Global: the Chinese Public-Partnership model in transnational perspective.- Chapter 6. Elephant in the room: On the Notions of SCEs in International Investment Law and International Economic Law.- Chapter 7. The Need to Update Securities Regulation in an Era of Hegemonic Rivalry.- Chapter 8. The treatment of Chinese SOEs under EU competition law: seeking truth from existing decisions.- Part 2. ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL EXPANSION OF STATE CAPITALISM.- Chapter 9. Beyond Wealth: Sovereign Funds, Levered Capital, and the Agenda for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 10. Planning beside and beyond the state: corporations' and sovereign wealth funds' planning strategies.-11. Working title: ' privatizations of State-owned companies at EU level.- Chapter 12. The Public Value Creation of State-owned Enterprises.- Chapter 13. Working title Cross border financing of Political parties and role of SCEs.- Chapter 14. China's Technology Import Substitution Policy: The Role of China's State Controlled Entities with U.S. Investments.- Chapter 15. Wealth Funds and Public Value Theory.- part 3. The accountability of state capitalism: exploring the forms of liabilities.- Chapter 16.Direct and Indirect State liability for actions of a state-owned enterprise.- Chapter 17. Working Title 'Social Responsibility' in the Governance of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises.- Chapter 18. National Security Review for Foreign Investments in China: A Transnational Approach.- Chapter 19. Investment screening: Controlling investments from State Controlled Enterprises.- Chapter 20. Political Support, Competitive Advantage, and International Investment Screening of SOEs/SCEs.- Chapter 21. The end of European naivety: Difficult times ahead for SCEs/SOEs investing in the European Union.- part 4. Regional and country perspectives.- Chapter 22. Vietnam's reform of state-owned entities: domestic and external drivers.- Chapter 23. How to handle state-owned enterprises in EU-China investment talks.- Chapter 24. State-Owned and Influenced Enterprises and the Evolution of Canada's Foreign Direct Investment Regime.- Chapter 25 . Fintech regulation and its impact on state-owned companies in Europe .- Chapter 26 . Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa: Always a Black-and-White Role?.- Chapter 27. The evolution of procurement regulation in Chinese SOEs.- Chapter 28. Port and Rail Investments: Reform of Chinese Regulations, Paradigm Shift of Chinese State-Controlled Entities and Global Freedom of Investments.- Chapter 29. The Role of State-Owned Enterprises in the Development of China's Polar Silk Road: The Evidences from Russia and Nordic Countries.