ISSN: 2036-5438
- 21. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?
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- Gonzalo Gabriel Carranza The federal loyalty in Spain is an unwritten constitutional principle that binds the State and the Autonomous Communities in their intergovernmental relations, as well ...
- Created on 30 April 2024
- 22. Federalism and institutional structure
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- Giacomo Delledonne As I am writing these lines, institutional developments on both sides of the Atlantic have shown, once again, how complex the interplay of federalism and democracy is. In the ...
- Created on 22 March 2024
- 23. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
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- Gábor Gulácsi and Ádám Kerényi By the autocratic transformation of its political system (with the establishment of the System of National Cooperation), then by its fierce promotion of national ...
- Created on 22 January 2024
- 24. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher
- (Essay)
- ... in Federal Systems and Its Implications, in relation to some of the major issues raised by the entry into force of the CRPD. From a legal-philosophical perspective, it is interesting to consider the impact ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 25. Addressing Complexity. The rise of the hybrid multilateral climate regime and its impact on the role played by ENGOs in the governance of climate change.
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- The spread of transnational and global phenomena is putting under strain the state-centric bias crystalized, inter alia, in inter-national law and in traditional forms of multilateralism. In this context, ...
- Created on 10 February 2023
- 26. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
- (Editorial)
- A long time has passed since the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were first conceived as an instrument to supplement the dollar as a provider of international liquidity: the first SDRs were officially ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 27. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
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- Second chambers are often designed to represent territorial interests, but they are prone to being taken over by political parties which undermines legislators’ territorial focus. In traditional federal ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 28. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
- (Essay)
- ... secession has barely been explored. Against this background, this article explores, from a legal perspective, the internal architecture of the Canadian equalization program with the aim of investigating ...
- Created on 25 November 2022
- 29. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
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- The ongoing transition from layered-cake federalism to marble-cake federalism led to an increasing role of intergovernmental grants in many countries. The field of higher-education is an example. Central ...
- Created on 21 November 2022
- 30. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
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- ... change in the paradigm of the use of SDRs, but also in terms of political and economic strategy for the EU and the AU as key regional actors in their respective continents and at the international level. ...
- Created on 09 November 2022
- 31. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
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- The paper describes the main features of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the international reserve asset issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). After the historic allocation of SDRs equivalent ...
- Created on 08 November 2022
- 32. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
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- ... on the New Allocation of the IMF’s SDRs” (with Professor Fabio Masini as principal investigator), coordinated by the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF) with the Robert Triffin International (RTI) and the ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 33. Time for a Next Generation Africa
- (Essay)
- ... SDRs” , coordinated by the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF) with the Robert Triffin International (RTI) and the Centre Studies on European and Global Governance (CesUE), admitted to the funding by the ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 34. European Republicanism and the Return of Geopolitics in European Integration Theory
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- The Russian assault on Ukraine has been described as a turning point for Europe, putting geopolitics back on the top agenda. The war coincidences with a new German government, which might, after 16 ...
- Created on 28 July 2022
- 35. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
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- ... as the appropriate institutional response for dealing with the civil war, but rebuffed by those at the helm of the political affairs of Sudan. South Sudan became an independent state following an internationally ...
- Created on 20 June 2022
- 36. Intellectual Prejudice and Institutional Shortcomings. The Risks for the Next Generation EU
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- Despite the fact that during the pandemic emergency the European Union managed to provide an ambitious and courageous response, in contrast to previous decisions, the intergovernmental method undermines ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 37. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems
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- This article considers the decriminalization of abortion in federal systems - decentralised and centralised. While factors external to the governance model influence whether abortion is decriminalized, ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 38. Federalism, political culture and the Question of Remaking Nigeria
- (Essay)
- ... of federalism? This article, an exploratory study, interrogated the latter part of the question by examining the concept of federal political culture and its effect on the practice of federalism in the ...
- Created on 18 November 2021
- 39. The EU-Member State Relationship as a Principal-Agent Problem
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- Ever since the European Union came into existence many theories have addressed the state of European integration. This paper tries to offer a further interpretation building on the principal-agent concept. ...
- Created on 21 October 2021
- 40. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts
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- Secession in a EU context analysed from a multilevel governance unravels that there is in fact room EU interference in secessionist conflicts. Nevertheless, a balance should be struck between such commitment ...
- Created on 20 September 2021