论晚近南北国家在国际投资法重大议题上的不同进路

North/South States’ Different Approaches to Contemporary Major Issues in International Investment Law

晚近国际投资条约实践表明,发展中国家与发达国家关于投资保护与规制之间的平衡点是不同的。这种差异表明,二者在国际投资法中的争议并没有消失,而是转移至更为广泛的议题。主要表现为:对规制权需求的不同侧重、对投资准入自由化的不同选择、对公平公正待遇的不同要求、对间接征收的不同认定、对改革投资者与国家间争议解决机制的不同主张。这些分歧是造成国际投资条约体系复杂性问题的根源。为此,在多边层面协调这些争议以达成共识,是解决该问题最为有效的途径,也符合发展中国家与发达国家的共同利益。

The making of balanced treaties is becoming widespread,within which there would be accommodation of the interest of investment protection and the preservation of the regulatory interest of the state. The point at which the balance is struck may vary. The investment treaty practice indicates that north/south states employ different approaches to major issues in contemporary international investment law,thus demonstrating that their divergences aren’t settled and shift onto broader issues. In detail,they emphasize different dimensions of the right of regulation,make different choices for investment access liberalization,provide different requirements for FET and indirect expropriation,and come up with different propositions on the ISDS reform. The divergences between developed economies and developing economies lie at the root of the investment treaty system complexity. The best available way to address the systematic problems is coordinating their investment policies on multilateral level,ultimately developing consensus among them. It is also beneficial to the both.