You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Global Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment: 2000-2011. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Global Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment: 2000-2011. Your paper should be a minimum of 2250 words in length. The paper tells that increasing world globalization has created an environment wherein inflows and outflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) have become an essential source of the modern economy. FDI has been understood as a net inflow of investment to acquire a lasting interest in a foreign equity. While there are a variety of competing perspectives regarding the impact of foreign direct investment, a number of overarching perspectives view attracting FDI as a large contributor to economic development and prosperity. Within this context of understanding countries have mobilized in a process of development where one of the primary strategic approaches has been the procurement of foreign direct investment (FDI). Still, there are varying perspectives both on the most efficient approach to attracting this mode of investment, as well as to the qualitative benefit of such investments for the host country. Indeed, in the early parts of the 20th century many emerging regions resisted FDI on the grounds that it was a form of neo-colonialism. One of the overarching considerations in terms of patterns of foreign direct investment over the last decade has been the political and regulatory environment of the country receiving the inflow of investment. This understanding of FDI distinguishes itself from foreign direct investment as government aid to the developing. Indeed, it’s recognized that in the highest tier of FDI are African regions including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola. (Moran, 2011). Rather, patterns of foreign direct investment are considered in terms of conceptual frameworks of attraction. An overarching qualitative examination of such foreign direct investment patterns between 2000 and 2011 demonstrates that broad scale political elements are greatly linked to foreign direct investment. One considers that to a large degree prominent outflows of FDI emerge from democratic host countries. It follows that the last decade of FDI is largely linked to political structures. Consider that for the decade under investigation Cuba didn’t receive positive FDI until as late as 2004 ("Foreign investment," 2011). Since this period the region has witnessed gradual increases in FDI as trade restrictions have been eased. Another prominent example is that of Russia. Long a communist country, for the early part of the 2000’s the region experienced extremely limited FDI. this trend changed dramatically in the middle part of the decade as Russia received some of the greatest world increases of FDI, before a sharp decline in 2009 ("Foreign investment," 2011). Afghanistan is another startling example as this country had received close to no FDI prior to United States military intervention. indeed, this is true of many of the turbulent Middle Eastern countries. While these are dramatic examples they present a comprehensive portrait of foreign direct investment as intimately coupled with political risks. It should come as no surprise that in large part global patterns of foreign direct investment between 2000-2011 are greatly influenced by democratic political structures. Theoretical perspectives have consistently linked foreign direct investment to government policy. The pervading logic behind these investments is not a matter of great complexity. In these regards, investors have been understood to remain more apt to invest long-term companies and corporate interests based on the host country’s ability to create policy measures that are most conducive to such investment. The complexity emerges as theorists attempt to determine the appropriate government climate for such investments.