Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the contributors of this book. Their eagerness to engage in this interdisciplinary project together with us and their intellectual curiosity to reflect on the new concept of investment facilitation from legal, economic, and political science perspectives need to be emphasized.
This book benefited from the many discussions we had with academics, colleagues from the WTO, and other international organizations as well as with domestic policymakers. In particular, we would like to mention the capacity-building and policy dialogue project on investment facilitation for development co-organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). The inspiring collaboration with Rajesh Aggarwal, Karl P. Sauvant, and Quan Zhao should be particular highlighted. In the past three years, many webinars have been held and many research reports have been published in the framework of the ITC/IDOS project. We have benefited greatly from these webinars and papers and would like to take the opportunity to thank the colleagues for their inspiring insights and thought-provoking exchanges.
Furthermore, we had the pleasure to work with the great team at IDOS, in particular Florian Gitt, Zoryana Olekseyuk, and Jakob Schwab, which was on the forefront of providing empirical research insights with the aim of shaping the policy debate on investment facilitation. The invaluable support of Ali Dadkhah needs to be acknowledged in this context. We consider ourselves lucky that many of these colleagues have agreed to contribute to this book.
We thank IDOS for agreeing to publish this book Open Access, so that a broader readership will have access to our research.
We are also thankful to the following individuals for their kind assistance: Süheyla Akcin, Yuting Chen, Wenyan Feng, Kaiye He, Xinhui Hong, Zifei Kang, Jie Li, Wei Liu, Matthias Sabel, Carla Wolf, and Yubin Zhang.
Last but not least, we thank Joe Ng, Gemma Smith and Auropradeepa Rajapriyan of Cambridge University Press for their patience and support.
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