Cases with minimum wage disputes, environmental permits to dig for fossil fuels not granted.
So-called sovereign policy-making is being 'chilled' by the system. 'Carve-outs' of territories (charter cities, SEZs), the sham of World Bank Development Aid to alleviate poverty.

Special Economic Zones introduce private laws where strikes are forbidden (ring any bells with Labour and Cons recent mutual backing of destroying rights to protest?). Remember that Shanker Singham has stated that once the deregulatory structure is in place, it cannot be changed by afuture Govt.

Charter cities around the world have private security firms guarding the zones, a corporate coup necessitates time an planning, this began in the 1950s with r/w economists and libertarians anger at the social contract, they belief democracy and libertarianism are incompatible.

Whatever nominal power is left over for the state is only existing because corporations have yet to figure out a way to totally annihilate democracy. A company can sue a country and extract a significant amount of GDP if objections are raised. #BrexitCarnage

Honduras is being sued for $11 billion by a company that formed an SEZ which was shut down, the GDP of Honduras cannot take a hit that seismic on their economic and social infrastructure. Post-Brexit UK in deep shit. Thinktanks like the IEA (est.1955) sought to tear up the social contract and dismantle the post-WWII egalitarian economics system. ISDS formed in 1960's ergot the foundations of 'corporate governance' firmly in place now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor–state_dispute_settlement#Historical_development

Wondering why Tories & Labour aren't keen on renationalizing utilities? Foreign private companies monopolize the system and can issue an ISDS and sue the shit out of the Govt, taxpayers will foot that bill, so effectively there is a corporate stranglehold on public ownership.

Colonialism never ended, it was rebranded. An economic model that proved successful for extreme capital gains was never going to disappear, it would grow stronger and things like social democracy while successful after WWII would always be an oppressive constraint on free trade.