Making foreign investment safe: property rights and national sovereignty

Abstract

State take-over of infrastructure : 1967-1980 -- Indosat : foreign investment in a risky environment -- The Indosat deal -- Nationalization of Indosat -- The power of being needed -- Indosat : a successful state-owned firm -- Return of private ownership of infrastructure : electric power, 1990-1997 -- Back to private power -- Paiton's power : cost of poor preparation -- Paiton's power : a new contender -- Paiton's power : more home government support -- Evaluating Paiton I -- The new international property rights in action : 1997-2005 -- Paiton I : promises fail -- Paiton I : backing away from the new property rights -- Karaha Bodas Company : turning to arbitration -- CalEnergy : claiming official political risk insurance -- Enron : another kind of official insurance -- Nationality, corporate strategy, and the new property rights -- Revisiting privatization and the new international property rights system -- Reforming for development and profits