The U.s. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (opic) : Foreign Direct Investment Protection System In China

The United States by establishing their own national types of bilateral investmenttreaties, with its domestic institutional arrangements-the United States OverseasPrivate Investment Corporation (OPIC), the international and domestic levelinstitutional arrangements to get linked each other, so as to protect the U.S. foreigndirect investment to provide institutional guarantees.This paper has analyzed the international level of protecting foreign direct investment,institutional arrangements, through the analysis of the reality of the plight of themultilateral investment agreements and bilateral investment arrangements of thehistorical development of the "rational design" model to explain why the generationof bilateral investment agreements, and to clarify the academic the significance of itseffectiveness. Finally, through domestic institutional arrangements has beenimplementing its protection of foreign investments.The reason why the U.S. can effectively protect the interests of foreign directinvestment, which is the U.S. domestic institutional commitment to get theinternational commitments of the "credibility" and obtain "subrogation," And furtherstatistical analysis of2000-2010Overseas Private Investment Corporation’s annualreport. Finally, the summary of a healthy and effective protection of U.S. foreigndirect investment policy requires U.S. domestic mechanisms and internationalmechanisms have a positive interaction arrangements, the U.S. Overseas PrivateInvestment Corporation makes the economic interests of overseas investmententerprises, as well as national security and foreign policy demands target to achieve aconvergence between U.S. foreign direct investment is an important means offinancial gain, but also to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals.