Originally from American Review of International Arbitration - ARIA

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 I. THE NEED OF NEUTRAL PLACES FOR NORTH-SOUTH
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
The strategic importance of international arbitration is obvious in our
times. Its continual expansion1 in the last thirty years is really remarkable,2 as
evidenced by the increasing number of cases, huge amounts involved, and the
diversification of the participants (both at the level of the sectors concerned
and the countries involved). With the progress of globalization,3 arbitration is
more than ever solidifying its role as the main form of justice of international
business and is growing significantly with it. Of course, this implies a deep
change in the attitude of developing countries toward international arbitration,4
if we compare the present situation to the one that followed the end of the
colonialism period.
A. The Original Suspicions of Developing Countries toward International
Arbitration
From mainly the 1950s until the early 1970s, a sort of clash occurred
between the young states of the South, attached to their newly recovered