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1. Volume 12 - issue 3 - 2020: (Category); The following are the latest essays, review articles and notes published on Perspectives on Federalism, which will be collected in next issue. You can download also previous issues from the archive.; Created on 27 July 2021
2. Perspectives on Federalism web-site is updated as soon as new contributions are approved by reviewers and revised by the authors. They are then collected into three issues a year. You can freely download ...: (Archives); Perspectives on Federalism web-site is updated as soon as new contributions are approved by reviewers and revised by the authors. They are then collected into three issues a year. You can freely download ...; Created on 27 July 2021
3. Paris: Epitome or Blind Spot of the Constitutional Identity of France?: (Essay); Giacomo Delledonne This short piece aims to make sense of the place of Paris within the French constitutional order and to analyse the role of the capital city in defining the constitutional identity ...; Created on 27 June 2025
4. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity: (Essay); Ylenia Maria Citino This paper explores the evolution of the constitutional status of Rome within Italy’s legal and political framework, arguing that the city’s symbolic and functional significance ...; Created on 26 June 2025
5. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...; Created on 26 June 2025
6. Introduction to the Symposium on “Capital Cities Shaping National Constitutional Identities”: (Essay); Ylenia Maria Citino and Giacomo Delledonne "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters ...; Created on 25 June 2025
7. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation: (Essay); Lidia Bonifati On 18 September 2023, the UK Parliament adopted the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict and promote ...; Created on 18 June 2025
8. 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
9. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?: (Note); 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
10. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review: (Essay); Gabriele Casano, Olimpia Fontana, Federico Nastasi The Global Gateway (GG) has been presented as the EU flagship foreign policy initiative to fill the global investment gap, with a regional focus ...; Created on 08 April 2025
11. Energotehnica: Primacy and Effective Judicial Protection Beyond the Rule of Law Crisis: (Note); Orlando Scarcello Case C-792/22, Parchetul de pe lângă Judecătoria Rupea and Others v. MG, Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 26 September 2024, ECLI:EU:C:2024:788. The Energotehnica judgment ...; Created on 04 December 2024
12. Blockchain Technology in Parliamentary Voting Procedures: (Note); ... implications of applying blockchain technologies to improve security and integrity of operations in parliamentary voting, thus allowing for remote voting under specific circumstances. Download pdf ...; Created on 28 November 2024
13. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi: (Essay); Panch Rishi Dev Sharma The President’s Rule impositions under Article 356 of the Constitution of India extraordinarily empower the central government to determine ‘constitutional machinery failure ...; Created on 20 November 2024
14. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods: (Essay); Guido Montani This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense ...; Created on 24 October 2024
15. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Final Remarks: (Essay); Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue, we have gathered experts from different legal systems, and critical voices who have explored new trends in comparative federalism from ...; Created on 01 August 2024
16. Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa. A Rejoinder: (Review articles); ... Cambridge University Press, 2023. This book makes a groundbreaking and compelling contribution to the law and politics of decentralization in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) states. Download ...; Created on 01 August 2024
17. Book Review: Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa - Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani (eds.): (Review articles); Nickson Mayieka Oira This work critically analyses the Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani, Cambridge University ...; Created on 01 August 2024
18. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong: (Essay); Elisabeth Alber New Caledonia is a French autonomous territory in the South Pacific whose constitutional status is designed to be transitional. It derives from the 1998 Nouméa Agreement, based ...; Created on 01 August 2024
19. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession: (Essay); Nejat Hussein, Yonatan T. Fessha The Ethiopian Constitution uniquely elevates the demand for internal secession to the status of a constitutional right. This right, enshrined in Article 47 of ...; Created on 01 August 2024
20. 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

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