This article introduces a novel database on investment treaties called the Electronic Database of Investment Treaties (EDIT). We describe the genesis of the database and what makes EDIT the most comprehensive and systematic database to date. What stands out besides the coverage is that treaties are all provided in one single language (English) and in one single format that is machine-readable. In the second part of the article, we provide selected illustrations on how the data can be used to address research questions in international law, international political economy, and international relations by applying text-as-data methods and by extracting and visualizing data based on EDIT.

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引入投资条约电子数据库（编辑）：新数据库的起源及其使用

本文介绍了一个新的投资条约数据库，称为投资条约电子数据库（EDIT）。我们描述了数据库的起源以及使 EDIT 成为迄今为止最全面和系统的数据库的原因。除了覆盖范围之外，最突出的是条约都以一种单一语言（英语）和一种机器可读的单一格式提供。在文章的第二部分，我们通过应用文本即数据的方法，以及通过提取和可视化基于编辑。