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Item The EU and the Reform of the Investment Protection Regime(2020) Svoboda, OndřejThe enlargement of the European Union’s (EU) exclusive competence in foreign direct investment (FDI) through the Lisbon Treaty has had profound implications. The EU has become an actor in the global investment regime and has begun to develop its own investment policy, including by negotiating international investment and comprehensive trade and investment agreements with third parties. Considering the magnitude of the EU economy and the fact that the EU Member States have concluded almost 1,400 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) out of the roughly 3,300 BITs in force worldwide, Europe’s potential influence over the international investment system is enormous. Consequently, an increasing number of lawyers and political scientists have become interested in the EU’s role in FDI. Three studies published by Routledge during the last three years reflect this trend. And each study offers different and valuable perspectives on the EU’s role in FDI.Item Responding to Hybridity in an Unstable Neighborhood : The Efficiency of the EU State-centric Approach to the Crisis in Libya and Ukraine(2020) Raineri, Luca; Ivashchenko-Stadnik, Kateryna; Petrov, RomanThis article investigates the complex problems arising from the discrepancy of traditional liberal crisis response approaches in the new type of complex emergencies. Based on the in-depth empirical analysis, it examines the EU role in addressing security sector reforms, humanitarian assistance and warfare in Libya and Ukraine, two key EU neighboring countries with ongoing military conflicts. It is argued that the observed over-emphasis on state-centric stabilization measures, with its main focus on formal state structures, fails to deal with the hybrid dynamics of conflict and peacebuilding in both countries. It is suggested that to shape comprehensive crisis response in an unstable neighborhood a multi-layered perspectives approach to security, sensitive to plural agencies and informal rules, should be developed both outside and within EU borders.