{"has_more":false,"total_items":3,"items":[{"vg_id":0,"journal":"The draft agreement, along with the commentary"},{"vg_id":0,"published_date":"2007-06-21","journal":"quoting President Morales from the Washington Post \"(We) emphatically reject the legal, media and diplomatic pressure of some multinationals that ... resist the sovereign rulings of countries, making threats and initiating suits in international arbitration\"; Letter from 134 NGOs to ICSID"},{"vg_id":0,"journal":"But crucially: existing alternatives, such as national courts in host countries, do not necessarily inspire more confidence. It may well be the current system of resolving investment disputes are a second-best solution for as long as states are unwilling to hand over adjudicative power to wellqualified individuals with security of tenure, such as the international investment court proposed by Gus van Harten. Compared to a baseline of arbitrators beholden to governments that was common in the late 19 th century, the current system of ad-hoc mixed with institutional arbitration would seem an improvement. Yet as measured against highly developed domestic adjudication"}]}