ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. The Treaty on European Union’s Mutual Defence Clause: Analysis and Future Perspectives
- (Essay)
- Emanuele Agosti The principle that an attack on one is an attack on all is not, as the common debate suggests, an exclusively Nato principle. Rather, it is a duty contained in all mutual defence clauses, ...
- Created on 15 August 2026
- 2. Delimitation, Malapportionment, and Federal Equity: The Political Economy of Representation in India
- (Essay)
- ... statistically insignificant when state and year fixed effects are added, suggesting that much of the variation is captured by the time-invariant state characteristics and common temporal shocks. Second, ...
- Created on 15 August 2026
- 3. Federalism beyond government: thinking outside the (institutional) box through commons governance
- (Essay)
- ... engage with this need for theoretical recognition by taking on Palermo’s suggestion that federal theory and practice may be one of the best suited, if not the best, tools to build a unitary theoretical ...
- Created on 07 August 2026
- 4. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
- (Essay)
- ... The author examines how this legal uncertainty has hindered effective governance and limited Rome’s potential as a global capital. It suggests that Rome should not merely be treated as a municipality but ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 5. 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
- 6. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab
- (Essay)
- José María Lorenzo Villaverde The wording of the Danish constitution (Grundlov) suggests that Denmark is a unitary state. However, both Greenland and the Faroe Islands have autonomy based on ...
- Created on 18 April 2024
- 7. Time for a Next Generation Africa
- (Essay)
- ... disequilibria. This paper re-examines the main proposals put forward in the last few months, and suggests that a different direction should be taken, at least in Europe. Given the strategic relevance ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 8. Decriminalizing Abortion in Federal Systems
- (Essay)
- ... reforms in decentralized federal systems. In decentralized systems the country examples suggest it is prudent to target receptive subnational units despite resistance in other subnational units for advocacy ...
- Created on 04 April 2022
- 9. Ethical Guidelines
- (Contents)
- ... review cannot therefore be used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted in depth, providing comments and suggestions to help authors improve their researches and their papers. Referee shall ...
- Created on 02 July 2021




