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Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Developing World: A Discursive Approach to the Analysis of Regime Formation

A second objective of this thesis is to evaluate the saliency of interest-based and power-based International Relations (IR) theories in explaining the emergence of international regimes and systems of cooperation between states. This thesis finds that these theories underemphasize the importance of identity, interest and preference construction in processes of regime formation and interstate cooperation. It finds, furthermore, that conventional IR theories' understanding of the concept of power misconstrues the role of developed nations in influencing the policy choices of developing states such Ecuador.

A second objective of this thesis is to evaluate the saliency of interest-based and power-based International Relations (IR) theories in explaining the emergence of international regimes and systems of cooperation between states.