ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book sets up three subjects for investigation to overcome the stalemate in previous research on the lawfulness under international law of a host state uni-laterally cancelling an agreement for the development of natural resources and implementing nationalization. Aspects of the debate regarding the lawfulness of a host state's unilateral cancellation of an agreement for the development of natural resources changed significantly during the 1950s. By proceeding with research based on this perspective, the analytical framework of the book, namely the legal process of natural resource nationalization disputes, had the practical advantages. One reason the host states came to take a broadly negative attitude towards the observance of the procedures asserted by this theory is that the host states could not accept the content of the principles asserted by this theory.
