ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’
- (Essay)
- ... seem to frame all the facets of the asymmetrical demands of national minorities in those federalising processes called ‘regional states’. This article introduces the concept of ‘spearheaded asymmetry’ ...
- Created on 24 July 2024
- 2. 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
- 3. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
- (Essay)
- ... right level for governance within a complex, multi-layered system that extends from the personal through the local, regional, state, transnational and international.’ (Waters 2020:227). Taking the cue ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 4. Federalism and the Unit Question
- (Essay)
- Erika Arban This contribution engages with the unit question in federal systems. The key claim presented here is that we may need to re-think federal units according to different sets of criteria ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 5. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
- (Essay)
- ... regional economic communities, the work will examine how the attraction of that model and its case law on integration in the EU has contributed to the development of judicial dialogue within these regional ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 6. 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
- 7. The Spanish model of protection of rights within the subnational level: a crossroad between the German and Italian cases
- (Essay)
- ... rights did not arrive until the first decade of the 21st century. But this is not a special case, Italy also recognized declarations of rights in its regional statutes in the early 2000s although this ...
- Created on 30 January 2023
- 8. 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
- 9. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
- (Essay)
- ... 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
- 10. Time for a Next Generation Africa
- (Essay)
- ... and loans, would aim to: trigger endogenous growth in Africa; strengthen African regional integration; and help European recovery. A few, not necessarily mutually exclusive, institutional settings and ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 11. About the journal
- (Contents)
- ... federalism at all levels of government: sub-national, national, and supra-national at both regional and global levels. A special focus is given to the developments of European integration. Perspectives ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 12. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
- (Essay)
- ... favourable to a so-called ‘umbrella agreement’, consisting of a single agreement applicable to the EU and all ACP countries and regional protocols, the ACP States look more in favour of maintaining the ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 13. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
- (Essay)
- ... configuration had achieved such stability in the century before 1991? This paper shows how, once they lost their representation in the Senate, regional actors had few institutional levers at the national ...
- Created on 19 January 2021