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US National Security and Foreign Direct Investment
Author(s) -
Hasnat Baban
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.21693
Subject(s) - national security , economic security , foreign direct investment , homeland security , security studies , politics , investment (military) , critical security studies , national strategy to secure cyberspace , foreign policy , political science , business , international trade , network security policy , economics , public administration , economic growth , cloud computing security , law , terrorism , cloud computing
This article examines US foreign investment policy in the historical and current security contexts and provides an analytical discussion on the trends in foreign investment review on national security grounds. It finds that the concept of national security has been gradually broadened to include economic security, critical infrastructure, and homeland security as components of national security. This has allowed the foreign investment review process to become highly politicized. The article concludes that national security is far too important to be mixed with domestic political debates on economic and social concerns from foreign takeovers. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.