Weaponising Investments [electronic resource] : Volume I / edited by Jens Hillebrand Pohl, Joanna Warchol , Thomas Papadopoulos, Janosch Wiesenthal.

Balancing Risks: Investment Screening Mechanisms, Essential Security Definitions, and Standards of Evidence -- The Evolving Landscape of Sovereign Wealth Funds in a Changing World Economy: How Resilient are the Santiago Principles? -- Much Ado about Nothing?: State-Owned Enterprises under Foreign Investment Control in the European Union -- Protection or Protectionism? Assessing the EU's New Investment Screening Measures Against State-Driven Foreign Investment Risks -- The Concept of Security: Brief Genealogy of an Ambiguous Symbol -- Screening FDI In The EU: A Cornerstone of an Economic Security Agenda -- The National Securitization of Foreign Direct Investment: A Strategic Futures Paradigm -- Economic Perspectives on FDI and Investment Screening -- From Principal Openness Towards Reciprocity: Reorienting the Normative Foundation of the EU Investment Screening Practice in Light of Geoeconomic Competition -- Inward FDI Regulation in the UK: Closing the "Open Door"? -- The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation: The Final Piece of the Regulatory Puzzle to Ensure Competitive Neutrality in Cross-Border M&A? -- Fair Play? The Politics of Evaluating Foreign Subsidies in the European Union.

This highly topical volume presents pioneering research for the purpose of developing a common analytical foundation and framework for the emerging interdisciplinary research field of investment control. Long considered as exceptional measures, restrictions on inward foreign direct investments (FDI) have become ever more common and accepted. This book presents different perspectives on how decision-makers go about the tasks of assessing risks and threats to national security that may be posed by FDI and then balancing those risks and threats against economic interests of parties concerned and society at large.