Reconciling all fields of international economic law (IEL) and creating bridges between disciplines in a conceptual as well as practical manner, this book stands out as the first modern, comprehensive international economic law textbook. Containing a technically solid yet critically rich body of knowledge that spans disciplines from trade law to investment, from trade finance to fisheries subsidies, from development to the digital economy and other new-age topics, the book offers the widest possible coverage of issues in current international economic law. Positioning IEL as a truly global practice, the comprehensive coverage includes various treaty texts, landmark cases and new materials, and is supplemented by case studies, real-life examples, exercises and illustrations. The case extracts and legal texts are selectively chosen, with careful editing and serious deliberation to engage modern law students. Mini chapters show examples of interdisciplinary interactions and provide a window into the future disciplines of international economic law.

Tous droits réservés 4. Texte disponible en mandarin dans sa version intégrale sur le site de Xinhua, http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2006-10/18/content_5218639.htm (25 septembre 2007). perspectives chinoisesii Alors que le concept « d'État de droit socialiste » avait rythmé le discours politique de la fin des années 1990, l'idée d'une « société d'harmonie socialiste » vient aujourd'hui éclairer la réforme juridique chinoise d'une étrange lumière aux reflets visiblement plus marxistes que confucéens. Ce cadre théorique fait du droit un principe disciplinaire destiné à la construction morale de la société. Si le droit est perçu comme un instrument de légitimation du pouvoir, son usage reste donc implicitement encadré par un impératif premier, la pérennité du régime. Bien que les citoyens ordinaires soient de plus en plus nombreux à se saisir des outils normatifs qui leur sont désormais offerts, le Parti-État, trop inquiet de se laisser déborder, cherche à détruire les ferments démocratiques présents dans ses propres créations.

“A harmonious society needs a stronger legal system that wields greater authority.”“He,” the Chinese character for harmony, is now in everyone's mind when thinking about contemporary China. Harmony and other ‘Confucian values’ seem to have penetrated all spheres of Chinese society, from the Communist Party's elite to business leaders and academics. But Confucius is both used and abused: quoting the philosopher at the start of the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in a kitsch historical extravaganza featuring 3,000 men dressed up as his disciples does not clarify the true political meaning of an increasingly ideologically eclectic regime. On the contrary, it leads, to borrow Claude Lefort's term, to further “complications.” Thus, the interest in the idea of a ‘socialist harmonious society’ stems less from what it holds aloft than from what it hides.

China, law, marketing, intellectual property, advertising, World Trade Organization, harmonious society,

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