Statebuilding and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Post-2003 Iraq

Costantini, Irene

doi:10.1080/13533312.2013.828519

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“…Yet FDI undermined government policies focused on tackling poverty and launching an inclusive, sustainable development model (p. 314). In a similar vein, Costantini (2013) in the context of post-war Iraq found that the flow of FDI is reinforcing destabilizing dynamics in Iraq by increasing levels of inequality, deepening the decentralization process and undermining internal and external balances of power.…”

Section: Review Of the Literature On War And International Businessmentioning

confidence: 92%

Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war

Owens

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically review the existing research on the intersection between war and international business (IB) and to map out a future research agenda. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on corporate examples and extant literature within IB, political science and international relations, the paper provides an introduction to the main concepts of war, a review of the IB research on war and provides a critical future research agenda. Findings The review of the multiple strands of war-related research in IB generally reveals an understudied area. Among other biases, prior research has focused on inter-state wars and has relatively unexplored foreign direct investment (FDI) and non-FDI within civil wars. Furthermore, previous studies offer little attention to how IB and multinational companies contribute to the emergence and development of wars. Originality/value The paper develops an analytical and critical research agenda for future research to examine the relationship between war and IB. This includes a set of questions for each of the three major phases of war: pre-conflict, armed violence and post-conflict. To the best of my knowledge, this has not been done before in the context of IB research.

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Section: Review Of the Literature On War And International Businessmentioning

confidence: 92%

Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war

Owens

2021

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“…However, the country is confronted with a number of difficulties, the most serious of which are issues of security and sovereignty, as well as the ongoing effort to gain control of the country's conflict-ridden regions (Diamond, 2004). Given these challenges, it is all the more important to establish a robust legal system that provides robust protections for property and contracts, as well as safeguards against political risks, to help mitigate the enormous security threats that exist in the majority of the territory (Costantini, 2013). Additionally, a shift is required from a public-sectordominated economy to a more diversified one, where private investment can add to economic growth, job creation, and participation in worldwide value chains (Ahmed, 2019).…”

Section: Iraq Sovereignty and Multinational Corporationsmentioning

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Probing Iraq State Since 2003 Through International Law: Is It Absent Sovereignty or Semi-Sovereignty?

SULTAN ABDULLAH ALBOKASHY et al.

2023

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During the wave of movements to end colonialism in the 20th century, the League of Nations was the first to recognise Iraq as a legal sovereign state. It also became a place where early development laboratory projects for examining sovereignty. In light of this regard, this article suggests to probe Iraq sovereignty from the prospective of International Law. In order to accomplish this, I begin by analysing the deviation of sovereignty meaning specially after U.S.A invasion of Iraq. The analysing also included Iraqi sovereignty and the multinational corporations and the accidents that these companies were committed. The study adopted a descriptive and content analysis as an effective approach. The results indicated that Iraqi sovereignty is still oscillating from its existing in reality and its absence. The Iraq law system also lack to law frames that could delineate the international investment in Iraq. The international law is influenced by opaques in dealing with Iraq as a special case of sovereignty.

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“…Peacekeeping reduces the disruption mentioned above and affects the employment of soldiers by the warring countries. Apart from protecting FDI, peacekeeping can also have the role of helping the warring countries to rebuild and FDI can help the countries in conflict in this respect (Biglaiser and DeRouen, 2007; Constantini, 2013). In other words, FDI can influence peacekeeping and peacekeeping can affect FDI.…”

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Peace keeping in a model of conflict with foreign investments

Lahiri

Vlad

2019

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Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of outside peacekeepers in a bilateral conflict. Design/methodology/approach The authors build upon a trade theoretic framework by incorporating disruptions due to war, which could affect directly the return to investment, both domestic and foreign, and by introducing explicitly peacekeeping forces into the model. Two countries are engaged in a war, with the purpose of capturing capital. A third country plays a dual role: it is the source of investments in the warring countries, and it deploys soldiers on ground for peacekeeping purposes. The authors consider the cases where the levels of foreign investments are exogenous and when they are endogenously determined by free mobility conditions. In the worst case, they find that foreign investment reduces conflict. In the case of endogenous foreign investments, they examine the effect of multilateral agreements where the two warring countries reduce their number of soldiers and the third increases the number of peacekeepers. Findings The authors find that the reform benefits all three countries and increases the level of foreign investments. They consider the cases of exogenous and endogenous foreign direct investment (FDI). In the first case, the authors examine the effect of an exogenous increase in FDI on the war equilibrium and find that it reduces the employment of soldiers in the warring countries and increases the size of the peacekeeping force. They also find that the first-best level of peacekeeping is larger than the equilibrium level. When FDI is endogenous, starting from the initial war equilibrium, they also examine the effect of a multilateral agreement in which the size of the peacekeeping force is increased by the third country and the two warring countries agree to reduce their war efforts. The authors find that the reform makes all three countries better off and increases the level of FDI. Originality/value The paper uses a theoretical model with third-party interventions in a bilateral war. It intends to shed light on some of the missing economic implications of peacekeeping. The paper introduces explicitly peacekeeping forces into the analysis and introduces a factor that represents a disruption to return on investment in both warring countries. The third country has a dual role; it provides investments in the warring countries and deploys soldiers for peacekeeping. Peacekeeping reduces the disruption mentioned above and affects the employment of soldiers by the warring countries. The authors find that a multilateral agreement in which the two warring countries reduce their war efforts and the third party increases its peacekeeping force can increase welfare in all three countries.

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Statebuilding and Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Post-2003 Iraq

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war

Exploiting bullets: international business and the dynamics of war

Probing Iraq State Since 2003 Through International Law: Is It Absent Sovereignty or Semi-Sovereignty?

Peace keeping in a model of conflict with foreign investments

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