Introduction to Part IV: Trade, investment and taxation

Part IV seeks to explore how the new constitutionalism of disciplinary

neo-liberalism has reshaped the global regimes on investment, trade and

taxation. It outlines how neo-liberal restructuring of these regimes -

despite contradictions and crises - is intensifying in ways that are

driven by, and that tend to reinforce, the direct and structural power of

capital. The five main themes in Part IV are:

1. The globalization of capital-exporting legal norms.

2. The expansion of market-based investment disciplines and

agreements.

3. Challenges for public service provision and environmental regulation

in light of these neo-liberal arrangements.

4. Prospects for the post-global economic crisis political economy of

taxation.

5. Prospects for alternative forms of governance of the investment, trade

and tax regimes.