Hello. I am Kanako Yamaoka, research staff at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. I was Prof. Garcia's counterpart when he was doing research on this topic in our organization. He invited me to hear his presentation today. Thank you for letting me to join in this seminar.

Thank you Kanako for joining us here today.

I am new to law research papers (I am from the Business Faculty). So please forgive me if my question is "off the mark". However I am wondering what are the legal issues in this research? Or, in other words, what makes this paper different to a paper written by a scholar in international relations?