Introduction—Legal Protection Offered to Foreign Investment in Latin America: Context and General Trends
摘要
This chapter presents a general historical and political-economy portrait of the legal protection that has been offered to foreign investment in Latin America, particularly through of the systematic conclusion of international investment agreements (hereafter IIAs) by the countries of the region. This picture aims to illustrate the factors and circumstances under which said safeguarding has entered into tension with the protection of public interests within the realm of investor-state arbitration (hereafter ISA).