ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Symbolic Federalism and Real Exclusion: Post-Statehood Governance in Telangana and the Limits of Subnational Transformation
- (Essay)
- ... limits of statehood as a stand-alone remedy for structural injustice and contributes to broader debates on federalism, subnational autonomy, and democratic deepening in India and comparative contexts. ...
- Created on 20 April 2026
- 2. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?
- (Editorial)
- Roberto Castaldi The debate on European defence seems confused. This is due to the fact that when member states cannot deal with a supranational problem, which requires at least European, if not ...
- Created on 09 May 2025
- 3. Federalism and the Unit Question
- (Essay)
- ... raise, not only because it contributes to the (comparative) debate on how to make federalism more responsive to 21st century challenges and problems, but also because it contributes to some broad questions ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 4. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?
- (Notes)
- Jock Gardiner and Silvia Talavera Lodos The High Court of Australia recently handed down the landmark decision of NZYQ, ruling the policy of indefinitely detaining non-citizen, non-visa holders ...
- Created on 05 March 2024
- 5. The ever-recurring salience of asymmetric federalism
- (Editorial)
- As I write these lines, discussions about asymmetric regionalism are at the top of the political agenda in Italy. Towards the end of the 17th parliamentary term, in 2017, the regional governments ...
- Created on 02 May 2023
- 6. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
- (Essay)
- 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
- 7. 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
- 8. About the journal
- (Contents)
- ... CSF. This initiative follows other successful initiatives like the Bibliographical Bulletin on Federalism. Perspectives on Federalism is an open forum for interdisciplinary debate about federalism at all ...
- Created on 02 July 2021




