Essays

These are the Essays or original research articles recently published on Perspectives on Federalism.

 
Gianni Bonvicini

If one looks at the rapid growth of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) since the Blair-Chirac meeting of Saint-Malo in 1998 and in particular at the launch of several crisis management missions it is...

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Paola Bilancia - Francesco Palermo - Ornella Porchia

What impact did Europeanization have on the governmental capacity of Italian regions? Are the regions successful in addressing the challenges and the opportunities of European integration? Is the participation ...

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Gloria Marchetti

The view prevailing among legal scholars - and endorsed in this paper - is that the coming into force of the reform of Title V, Part 2, of the Constitution  introduced a multi-polar institutional framework in ...

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Riccardo Fiorentini-Guido Montani

This article investigates some of the causes of the financial crisis – global imbalances and unsatisfactory regulation of world liquidity – and supports the need to reform the present asymmetric internation...

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Elena Asciutti

In 1967, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand founded the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In the early 1990’s, five more states became members of ASEAN: Brunei, Cambodia...

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Filippo Scuto

This article examines law no. 42 of 2009 which, in accordance with art. 119 of the Constitution, opens the way to the introduction of “fiscal federalism” in Italy. The new law falls within the sphere of the...

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Giuseppe Martinico

From a “formalistic” point of view the Regions are and have been neglected (especially in the past) in the EU law context. To express such a situation the German constitutional lawyers used the formula "Lan...

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Paola Bilancia

This essay aims at giving an overview on the role of the European and national Parliaments in the dynamics of integration. After resuming the main issues that such a subject present, the author analyses the ...

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Guido Montani

The reaction of the European Union to the financial crisis consisted mainly in uncoordinated national plans. A real European recovery plan would have been more effective, but it was not possible because the ...

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Chiara Ruffa

After the end of the Cold War, peacekeeping operations have increasingly been launched by new actors (such as regional organizations and ad hoc coalitions) despite the continued and important role of the United...

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