State authority and investment security: Non-state actors and the negotiation of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment at the OECD

Non-State Actors and Authority in the Global System

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 74-90

  Smythe, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies   (Canada)

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EID: 84905287325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203165041     Document Type: Chapter

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