Abstract
Brazil has traditionally been one of the only major economies never to have committed to an international investment agreement, an area of global policy dominated by a specific type of agreement, the Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). This country changed its traditional stance only recently, due in particular to the interest of domestic stakeholders, who were increasingly investing abroad. But when Brazil decided to join the network of investment agreements, it did so on its own terms, employing a model agreement that significantly departs from the globally-disseminated BIT-format. We argue that the design of the Brazilian investment model agreement is the result of a policy learning process that draws extensively both from the experiences and foreign policy preferences of Brazil as well as from negative experiences of third countries with the traditional BITs.
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The opinions expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the positions of the government of Brazil. The authors are grateful for the very useful and insightful comments made to earlier versions of the manuscript by Anthea Roberts and Pedro Mendonça Cavalcante.
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Maggetti, M., Choer Moraes, H. (2018). The Policy-Making of Investment Treaties in Brazil: Policy Learning in the Context of Late Adoption. In: Dunlop, C., Radaelli, C., Trein, P. (eds) Learning in Public Policy. International Series on Public Policy . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76210-4_13
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