Geopolitical Risks and Geoeconomics in International Economic Law

Junji Nakagawa is a Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Chuo Gakuin University. He is also a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. He is Of Counsel at Anderson, Mori & Tomotsune. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. Before assuming the current positions, he was a Professor of International Economic Law at the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. He is a Chairperson of the Asia International Economic Law Network (AIELN). His research covers a wide range of public international law regulating transnational economic transactions. His major recent publications include: A Post-WTO International Legal Order, Springer, 2020; Asian Perspectives on International Investment Law, Routledge, 2019; Nationalization, Natural Resource and International Investment Law, Routledge, 2017; and International Harmonization of Economic Regulation, Oxford University Press, 2011.  Taro Hamada is Professor at the Faculty of Law at Senshu University, Japan. He previously served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and at the Permanent Mission of Japan in Geneva, where he was responsible for WTO and EPA negotiations. He examines the evolving legal and institutional frameworks that govern global trade, with particular attention to how states balance economic integration, domestic regulatory autonomy, and the protection of workers. His recent publications include International Law and the Global Economy, co-ed., Shinzan-sha, 2021, in Japanese; “International Trade and Labor” in International Economic Law, 31, 2022, in Japanese; and “Are Korea’s Import Bans on Japanese Foods Based on Scientific Principles?”, co-author, in European Journal of Risk Regulation, 11(1), 2020.  Yoshimichi Ishikawa is Associate Professor at the School of International Relations at the University of Shizuoka, Japan. Before entering academia, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, working on WTO dispute settlement. He received his PhD in Law from the University of Bern, Switzerland, where he completed his dissertation, International Trade in Food after a Nuclear Accident, with the distinction of magna cum laude. His research focuses on evidence-based analysis of international trade regulation, with particular interest in the quantification of risk and the design of effective risk governance frameworks. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Japanese Society of International Economic Law.

• Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- About the Editors.- List of editors and contributors.- Introduction.- Geopolitical Conflict, Geoeconomic Manoeuvring, and the Law of the Jungle: Are We Witnessing the End of the Liberal Trading Order.- Sustainable Digitalization and Cyber Resilience on the Supply Chain.- How to Capture "Supply Chain Resilience" under Justifications of the WTO Law.- Geopolitical Risk and International Economic Law: An Empirical Framework for Designing Resilient Trade and Investment Rules.- How Geopolitics Shape New Forms of International Economic Ordering.- Investment Screening Mechanisms under the Investment Treaty Law: The Case of the UK’s National Security and Investment Act.- Does the Frequent Invocation of the National Security Exception Render WTO Disciplines Meaningless? Exploring Viable Options under the Current WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism.- Beyond Investment Protection: A Theory of Political Risk Governance in International Investment Law.- National Security Concerns and Data Governance: Export Restrictions on Data and Its Implications for International Economic Law.- Conflict between Environmental Protection and Investment Protection.- Digital Silk Road or Cyber Silk Curtain? Geo-economics and Legal Dynamics of China’s Belt and Road Initiative within ASEAN under the RCEP Framework.- Bamboo in the Storm: A Vietnamese Perspective on Data Sovereignty and Trust in the Digital Economy.- “Soft” Law on Cybersecurity and Data Governance: Strengthening Asia’s Digital Economy.- Normative Reconstruction of Data Governance in Asia Amid Geopolitical Shifts.-The Case for the Development of an Asian Regional AI Framework: Expanding the Discussion on “Sovereign AI” to a Regional Level.- Technology Transfer in the Health Sector: Between Voluntary Licenses and Competition.- Principles of Sustainable Finance Regulation and Their International Investment Law Implications: The Case of Hong Kong and its Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance.