ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order
- (Essay)
- ... government. This article argues that these laws are being used to win or keep political power or to get the federal government to limit their legitimate roles in key areas. Finally, the article will discuss ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 2. What Can Asymmetric Federalism and Differentiation in EU Law Learn From Each Other? Asymmetric Federalism as an Explanatory Model for Differentiation in EU Law
- (Essay)
- ... but have seldom been considered in parallel. It discusses the two theoretical frameworks in terms of their common features and their underlying normative idea, namely, the accommodation of diversity. Additionally, ...
- Created on 23 July 2024
- 3. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective
- (Essay)
- ... Pakistan. The problems of autonomy of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia are discussed in comparative terms. This article argues that in multi-ethnic countries, different forms and layered of federal asymmetry ...
- Created on 22 July 2024
- 4. Independence in the European Union
- (Essay)
- ... regions, first and foremost the right to secede based on the principle of self-determination of peoples. It finishes by discussing the legal paths for the transformation of substate regions into Member ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 5. 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
- 6. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
- (Editorial)
- ... born in 1969, shortly before the Bretton Woods regime collapsed, in August 1971. The birth of the SDRs was the result of long and tiring discussions between central bankers and leading international experts, ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 7. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
- (Essay)
- ... governments in federalist countries claim that earmarked resources can better achieve policy goals. This discussion paper evaluates the goal attainments in a billion-worth program for higher education ...
- Created on 21 November 2022
- 8. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
- (Essay)
- ... The paper discusses how to overcome current legal challenges to facilitate the reallocation of the SDRs held by Euro area countries to an ambitious Next Generation Africa plan. Paper originally published ...
- Created on 08 November 2022
- 9. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
- (Essay)
- ... on the financing needs of the African continent’s basic infrastructure. Other long-term dimensions of a strategic partnership with Africa are also discussed. The paper strongly confirms the need and opportunity, ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 10. Subnational Courts of Last Resort in Germany and the USA
- (Essay)
- ... judcial review. If we discuss constitutional adjudication and high courts in federal systems, we must take the subnational level into account. Without giving this level its due credit, we are unable ...
- Created on 28 September 2021
- 11. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
- (Essay)
- 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