Dr Gharavi analyzes the relevant provisions in all major international arbitration conventions, as well as national laws on the annulment and enforcement of arbitral awards in force in more than fifty different countries. Among the book's most notable features are the following:
- invaluable information on, and an in-depth analysis of, the travaux preparatoirs of the New York Convention pertaining to the articulation of annulment/enforcement controls;
- the effects of the cultural, judicial, and legal diversity of states; and,
- clear elucidation of the interests that often separate North from South in the practice of arbitration.