ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Marching in line through the crisis or setting one’s own course in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? A comparison of six policies, 16 states and two shutdowns in the German federation
- (Essay)
- ... during the Covid-19 pandemic all federations showed efforts to coordinate their reactions. In Germany, the ‘Länder’ (states) decided on agreements concerning containment measures during regular conferences. ...
- Created on 15 December 2022
- 2. 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
- 3. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
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- Immediately after the formation of the state of Kerala, general election was held to the Kerala State Legislative Assembly. In this election, the communists came to power in Kerala. This was the first ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 4. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
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- ... identity, and furthermore by the unorthodox action it has taken against the Union’s federal policy of closing ranks in the face of the Russian-Ukrainian state of war, the Hungarian government, which achieved ...
- Created on 22 January 2024
- 5. Comparing fiscalisations: a review of Fiscal Unions by Tomasz Woźniakowski
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- A review of Fiscal Unions: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States by Tomasz P. Woźniakowski (OUP 2022). Download pdf
- Created on 05 October 2023
- 6. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay
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- Historically, the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has not been the sole framework for defence cooperation between Member States. Indeed, several ad hoc multilateral agreements coexist with ...
- Created on 30 May 2023
- 7. 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
- 8. The Spanish model of protection of rights within the subnational level: a crossroad between the German and Italian cases
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- The territorial entities of the federal States carry out an essential work in terms of protection of rights and freedoms. The recognition of subnational declarations, their development through ordinary ...
- Created on 30 January 2023
- 9. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
- (Essay)
- ... of resources from European states to Africa might entail, both in terms of supporting the development of the African continent through the definition of a ‘Next Generation Africa’, and in terms of a substantial ...
- Created on 09 November 2022
- 10. Time for a Next Generation Africa
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- ... of Africa to the future of Europe we suggest the EU Member States should consider pooling part of the SDRs recently received to launch Next Generation Africa. This major investment plan, of both grants ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 11. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
- (Essay)
- ... 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
- 12. The Role of the European Union in Secessionist Conflicts
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- ... and restraint in respect of Member State autonomy. Through creative and pragmatic conflict-resolution the EU can and should conjure the political courage to find the limits of potential commitment. To ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 13. Cookie Policy
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- ... This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users' IP addresses within Member States of the European Union or in other Contracting States to the Agreement on ...
- Created on 29 July 2021
- 14. Ethical Guidelines
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- ... Authors: When submitting a paper authors should provide all relevant pieces of information requested by the submission policy. Providing fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 15. Editorial Board
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- ... Research Group on Subnational Constitutions in Federal and Quasi-Federal Constitutional States Editorial Board Salvatore Aloisio Lecturer of Public Law, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 16. About the journal
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- ... issues in federal states, regional organizations, and international organizations at global level, whenever they are relevant to scholars of federalism. We hope scholars from around the world will contribute ...
- Created on 02 July 2021
- 17. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
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- This article provides an analysis of the recent negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the representatives of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) for the signature of a ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 18. Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation in Federal Systems
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- ... in Federal Systems’. It will focus on the degree to which legal and judicial pluralism is possible within the general legal system of the State. Particular attention will be paid to autonomous judicial ...
- Created on 12 December 2020