双边投资条约在武装冲突情况下的适用问题研究

摘要

利比亚冲突使得武装冲突中保护投资的问题受到了普遍关注。本文讨论的是该问题的一个面向，即双边投资条约（以下简称“BITs”）在武装冲突情况下是否仍然适用。本文首先讨论了BITs中与武装冲突相关的常见条款，并分析包含这些条款的BITs在武装冲突中的适用性。本文继而讨论了如何根据条约法的一般规则判断不包含此类条款的BITs的适用性。最后，本文分析了在反政府武装成功夺取政权的情况下BITs的效力问题以及违约行为的责任问题。%The Libya conflict raised the issue of protection of investment in situations of armed conflict, of which the applicability of bilateral investment trea-ties ( BITs) is no doubt a very important dimension.This article firstly discusses common clauses in BITs that are related to armed conflict, and analyses the appli-cability of BITs that contains such clauses.It then moves to examine the applica-bility of BITs without such clauses, according to the general rules of the law of treaties.Final y, the article examines the applicability of BITs and the responsibili-ty for breaches when an anti-governmental armed group achieves final success and establishes a new government.