Foreign Investment Risk

Title: Foreign Investments Risks Around The World A Research Proposal: 
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Foreign Investments Risks Around The World A Research Proposal: 
Outline:
I-Introduction ………………………………………………………………3
II-Statement of the problem…………………………………………………4
II-1.Overview………………………………………………………………...4
II-2.The aim and Objectives………………………………………………….4
III-Literature Review…………………………………………………………..5
IV-Methodology and Statistical tools………………………………………… 8
V-.Expected findings……………………………………………………………9
V- Conclusion …………………………………………………………………..10
I-Introduction
In the colonial era, foreign investors from imperial States enjoyed total protection. As a result, there was not much talk and worry about risks associated with foreign investments. Protection was also provided through diplomatic channels in cases where in the investment was to be directed into countries not directly under domination of the investor nation. Reinforcement could be given by collective pressure mounted by home governments of the investors. However, the advent of economic nationalism soon after the colonial era served to eliminate military based protection which consequently opened the door to higher foreign investment risk in contemporary society (Sornarajah, 1994). 
The exercise of national sovereignty which followed from independence meant that countries became firmly in charge of the way their natural resources were utilized. This was a practice whose jurisdiction was expanded to cover both development and property expropriation risk within the international law confines. The immediate implication of sovereign exercise of unlimited control over resources was that a country would be within the law to alter some of the policies and law provisions as it deems fit as long as they are intended to maximize resource utilization. This would have the effect to provide leeway for the host country to effect strategic adjustments to vital political and fiscal policies hence increase chances for foreign investment risks. This research intends to find out what the risks to foreign investment today are in the international setting; with the aim of finding ways of reducing or avoiding the risks. The research will try to highlight some strategies that may help to encourage foreign investment amid the various risks involved. 
II-Statement of the problem  
II-1.Overview
With the current raging wave of globalization, many nation states have fear for
potential security threats and have as a result been forced to streamline some foreign direct investment (FDI) regulations as a cautionary measure. This...