Publications: Books

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2020-2026

John Cantwell, Farok J. Contractor, Gary Gereffi, and Karl P. Sauvant, Guest Editors of a Special Issue on The Shift to a More Turbulent IB Environment, and How MNEs Respond to this Shift, International Business Review, vol. 35 (2026).

Karl P. Sauvant, Matthew Stephenson, Yardenne Kagan, eds., An Inventory of Concrete Measures to Facilitate the Flow of Sustainable FDI: What? Why? How? (Geneva: ITC, 2022), third edition, e-book.

Axel Berger, Yardenne Kagan and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Investment Facilitation for Development: A Toolkit for Policymakers (Geneva: ITC, 2022), second edition, e-book.

Joachim Müller and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Annual Review of United Nations Affairs 2019/2020 (New York: OUP, 1988-1993 and 2003/2004-2019/2020), 112 volumes (volumes 1988-1993 also with Kumiko Matsuura). Each edition included comprehensive documentation of the work of the UN. Beginning with the 2010/2011 edition, furthermore, each edition also included in-depth analyses by experts of UN matters on the outcomes of the work of the key organs of the UN: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice, and the UN Secretariat.

The Chinese translation of the introduction and analyses of the 2016/2017 edition, combined in a book, were published by China’s Social Sciences Academic Press in 2020. The analyses contained in the 2010/2011 edition were published in Chinese in Joachim Müller and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Annual Review of United Nations Affairs 2010/2011 (Beijing: Economy and Management Publishing House, 2012).

Axel Berger and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Investment Facilitation for Development: A Toolkit for Policymakers (Geneva: ITC, 2021), first edition, ebook.

Karl P. Sauvant, Matthew Stephenson, Khalil Hamdani, and Yardenne Kagan, eds., An Inventory of Concrete Measures to Facilitate the Flow of Sustainable FDI: What? Why? How? (Geneva and Bonn: International Trade Centre and German Development Institute, Nov. 2021), second edition, ebook.

2000-2019

Karl P. Sauvant and Federico Ortino, Improving the International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Options for the Future (Helsinki: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, 2013). A brief note by the authors, based on this booklet, and entitled “The Need for an International Investment Consensus-building Process”, was published in English and Chinese as Columbia FDI Perspective, no. 101 (August 12, 2013). A version of the options chapter of this booklet was published in Chinese and English, under the title “The Future of the International Investment Law and Policy Regime: Options for Improvement”, in the Journal of International Economic Law, vol. 21, No. 3, 2014, pp. 49-84 and 85-133, respectively. (The Chinese version of this text was selected by China’s Central Compilation & Translation Bureau for inclusion into a volume entitled Global Economic and Financial Governance (Beijing: Central Compilation & Translation Press, 2017), pp. 239-277.)

Karl P. Sauvant, Padma Mallampally and Geraldine McAllister, eds., Inward and Outward FDI Country Profiles, Second Edition (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2013), second edition, e-book.

Karl P. Sauvant and Jennifer Reimer, eds., FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment, Second Edition (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2012), second edition, e-book.

Karl P. Sauvant, ed., Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, 2008/2009 – 2011/2012 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009-2012), four editions.

Karl P. Sauvant, Lisa Sachs and Wouter Schmit-Jongbloed, eds., Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Karl P. Sauvant and Miles Killingsworth, Guest Editors, Special Issue on “FDI, the Global Crisis and Sustainable Recovery”, Transnational Corporations, vol. 20, no. 1 (April 2011).

Karl P. Sauvant, Lisa Sachs, Ken Davies, and Ruben Zandvliet, eds., FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2011), e-book.

Karl P. Sauvant, Vishwas P. Govitrikar and Ken Davies, eds., MNEs from Emerging Markets: New Players in the World FDI Market (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2011), e-book.

Karl P. Sauvant, Thomas Jost, Ken Davies, and Ana-Maria Poveda Garces, eds., Inward and Outward FDI Country Profiles (New York: Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, 2011), e-book.

José E. Alvarez and Karl P. Sauvant, with Kamil Gérard Ahmed and Gabriela P. Vizcaino, eds., The Evolving International Investment Regime: Expectations, Realities, Options (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Mark Kantor, Michael D. Nolan and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Reports of Overseas Private Investment Corporation Determinations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 2 vols.

Karl P. Sauvant and Jaya Prakash Pradhan, with Ayesha Chatterjee and Brian Harley, eds., The Rise of Indian Multinationals: Perspectives on Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Karl P. Sauvant and Geraldine McAllister, with Wolfgang Maschek, eds., Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Karl P. Sauvant, ed., Investing in the United States: Is the US Ready for FDI from China? (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009).

Karl P. Sauvant and Lisa Sachs, eds., The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment: Bilateral Investment Treaties, Double Taxation Treaties and Investment Flows (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Karl P. Sauvant with Michael Chiswick-Patterson, eds., Appeals Mechanism in International Investment Disputes (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Karl P. Sauvant with Kristin Mendoza and Irmak Ince, eds., The Rise of Transnational Corporations from Emerging Markets: Threat or Opportunity? (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008). (Also in paperback.)

Laza Kekic and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., World Investment Prospects to 2011: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Political Risk (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., 2007).

Laza Kekic and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., World Investment Prospects to 2010: Boom or Backlash? (London: The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., 2006).

Karl P. Sauvant, with Jörg Weber, eds., International Investment Agreements: Key Issues (New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2004, 2005), 3 volumes.

1990-1999

Karl P. Sauvant, Persephone Economou and Fiorina Mugione, eds., Companies without Borders: Transnational Corporations in the 1990s (London: International Thomson Business Press, 1996).

John H. Dunning and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Transnational Corporations and World Development (London: International Thomson Business Press, 1996).

Karl P. Sauvant, ed., The Third World without Superpowers, 2nd Ser., The Collected Documents of the Group of 77 (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1981-1995), 20 volumes (volumes 7-20 with Joachim Müller).

Karl P. Sauvant and Padma Mallampally, eds., United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations: volume twelve: Transnational Corporations in Services (London: Routledge on behalf of the United Nations, 1994).

Karl P. Sauvant and Jörg Weber, eds., The International Legal Framework for Services (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1993), 3 vols.

Odette Jankowitsch and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., The Third World without Superpowers: The Collected Documents of the Non-Aligned Countries (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1978-1993), 12 volumes (volumes 11-12 also with Jörg Weber).

Kumiko Matsuura, Joachim W. Muller and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Chronology and Factbook of the United Nations, 1941-1991 (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1992).

Patrick A Messerlin and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., The Uruguay Round: Services in the World Economy (Washington and New York: The World Bank and UNCTC, 1990).

1980-1989

Peter Robinson, Karl P. Sauvant and Vishwas P. Govitrikar, eds., Electronic Highways for World Trade: Issues in Telecommunication and Data Services (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989).

Karl P. Sauvant, International Transactions in Services: The Politics of Transborder Data Flows (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986).

Karl P. Sauvant, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Data Services (Boulder: Westview Press, 1986).

Karl P. Sauvant, The Group of 77: Evolution, Structure, Organization (Dobbs Ferry: Oceana, 1981).

Karl P. Sauvant, ed., Changing Priorities on the International Agenda: The New International Economic Order (Oxford: Pergamon, 1981).

1970-1979

Karl P. Sauvant and Hajo Hasenpflug, eds., The New International Economic Order: Confrontation or Cooperation between North and South? (Boulder/Frankfurt/London: Westview Press/Campus Verlag/Wilton House, 1977). The book was an alternate selection of the Library of Political and International Affairs of the Macmillan Book Club, mid-Winter 1978.

Karl P. Sauvant and Farid G. Lavipour, eds., Controlling Multinational Enterprises: Problems, Strategies, Counterstrategies (Boulder/Frankfurt/London: Westview Press/Campus Verlag/Wilton House, 1976).

Bernard Mennis and Karl P. Sauvant, Emerging Forms of Transnational Community: Transnational Business Enterprises and Regional Integration (Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1976).

David Burtis, Farid Lavipour, Steven Ricciardi, and Karl P. Sauvant, eds., Multinational Corporation-Nation-State Interaction: An Annotated Bibliography (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1971).