ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?
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- Işıl Kurnaz Can the refusal of 1-day reserve military service be interpreted in a way that expands the right to conscientious objection? The ECHR's most recent judgment on conscientious objection, ...
- Created on 09 April 2025
- 2. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
- (Essay)
- Nikos Skoutaris Scholars have often either framed federalism as an alternative to secession (Buchanan 1995) or suggested that secession is incompatible with the federal principle (Jellinek 1905). ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 3. Federalism and the Unit Question
- (Essay)
- ... boundaries; it also engages with debates in federalism theory on the unit question itself. Part 2 describes three alternative factors that may be used to guide the way some unit boundaries are drawn: economic ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 4. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- ... expressing the territorial dimension. Alternative formats of subnational participation in central government have emerged, such as executive-based bodies comprising the central and regional governments ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 5. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
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- This paper forms part of a broader debate on alternative uses of SDRs following the recent General Allocation of August 2021. We intend to highlight the fundamental aspects that a potential reallocation ...
- Created on 09 November 2022
- 6. Time for a Next Generation Africa
- (Essay)
- The recent allocation by the IMF of $650bn in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) triggered a widespread debate on their use for alternative purposes to their usual role as instrument to fix balance of payments ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 7. European Republicanism and the Return of Geopolitics in European Integration Theory
- (Essay)
- ... put forward by the German Green party. Afterwards, the historic evolution of the economic paradigm in European integration theories is analyzed. Finally, European republicanism is presented as an alternative ...
- Created on 28 July 2022