ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. London: The Past, Present, and Future of the Seat of Constitutional Monarchy
- (Essay)
- ... federalism’. This unorthodox constitutional structure results from the centuries of development from separate feudal autocracies, through imperial expansion, and into a modern constitutional monarchy. ...
- Created on 08 July 2025
- 2. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
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- ... as the capital remains underdeveloped. Despite its central place in Italian history and identity, Rome’s constitutional status has long been ambiguous in legal terms, only formally recognized in 2001. ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 3. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review
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- 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
- 4. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods
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- ... to respond not only to the economic and monetary disorder, but also to the possible ecological collapse of the biosphere. Therefore, the historical-economic approach developed by Robert Triffin is indispensable. ...
- Created on 24 October 2024
- 5. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
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- ... from that, the paper provides for a nuanced account of the relationship between the two concepts by developing its argument in three steps. First, it defines the two concepts and highlights that secession ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 6. The European Union as a Form of ‘Functional Federalism’
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- Giuseppe Martinico In this contribution, I shall explore the concept of ‘functional federalism’ as developed by Peter Hay in his book Federalism and Supranational Organizations: Patterns for New ...
- Created on 29 July 2024
- 7. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
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- ... 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
- 8. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’
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- Matteo Monti In comparative federalism studies, the category of asymmetry is being explored more and more. However, the traditional category of asymmetry, developed for federal states, does not ...
- Created on 24 July 2024
- 9. The Unsettled Question of the Constitutional Framework and the Interpretative Authority in the Danish Rigsfællesskab
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- ... that they are not in contradiction with the Grundlov. The latter remains silent about the home rule model, which has developed in parallel to the constitution but not in conflict with it. It is argued ...
- Created on 18 April 2024
- 10. Federalism and institutional structure
- (Editorial)
- 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
- 11. 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
- 12. An Inconvenient truth: the narrow trade-off between Equity and Climate Security
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- ... for a sample of 29 countries that cover industrialized and developing economies. In its concluding remarks, the paper underscores the need for a balanced approach that comprises both climate change mitigation ...
- Created on 17 October 2023
- 13. 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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- ... played by NSAs and increasing the effectiveness of the global climate governance system. Accordingly, after duly addressing the literature on the issue at stake, this study has developed the concept of ...
- Created on 10 February 2023
- 14. 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
- 15. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
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- ... in sub-units that are net receivers of funds; have an integrating function as they promote economic development and cohesion and tend to enhance a sense of belonging and solidarity among constituent units ...
- Created on 25 November 2022
- 16. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
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- ... 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
- 17. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
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- This paper contributes from an economic point of view to the idea of a Next Generation Africa financed by the EU’s allocation of SDRs. The first part considers the macroeconomic framework for African ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 18. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
- (Essay)
- ... and extremely shaky peace agreements, which were signed in 2015 and 2018 under the auspices of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). In the process of peace negotiation, the establishment ...
- Created on 20 June 2022
- 19. About the journal
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- ... 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