This analysis contains a very useful explanation of the origins of the MAI and its relationship to GATT, MIA, WTO, etc., as well as the tensions between the First and Third Worlds that led U.S. and European capital to start promoting an investment treaty through the OECD when they couldn't get one through the WTO. http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/mai/index.html MAIGALOMANIA Citizens and the Environment Sacrificed to Corporate Investment Agenda We are working on a full HTML edition of this latest CEO briefing and hope to have it running around 16 February 1998. For the moment you can read the ASCII version of the briefing as it was sent out by e-mail on 10 February 1998. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION PART TWO: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK -- A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MAI PART THREE: MULTIFACETED ATTACK FOR INVESTMENT DEREGULATION PART FOUR: THE MAIN CORPORATE PLAYERS PART FIVE: RESOURCES AND WEBLINKS
