ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Independence in the European Union
- (Essay)
- Francisco Pereira Coutinho The dream of “independence in Europe” has been driving the very successful political action of nationalist movements in substate regions such as Catalonia, Flanders, ...
- Created on 21 March 2024
- 2. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates
- (Essay)
- ... region. On the occasion of the golden jubilee of the UAE’s 1971 establishment, this article aims to understand what model of distribution of powers is designed in the UAE and to what extent it is possible ...
- Created on 31 January 2024
- 3. 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
- 4. The Spanish model of protection of rights within the subnational level: a crossroad between the German and Italian cases
- (Essay)
- ... rights did not arrive until the first decade of the 21st century. But this is not a special case, Italy also recognized declarations of rights in its regional statutes in the early 2000s although this ...
- Created on 30 January 2023
- 5. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- ... expressing the territorial dimension. Alternative formats of subnational participation in central government have emerged, such as executive-based bodies comprising the central and regional governments ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 6. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
- (Essay)
- ... change in the paradigm of the use of SDRs, but also in terms of political and economic strategy for the EU and the AU as key regional actors in their respective continents and at the international level. ...
- Created on 09 November 2022
- 7. Time for a Next Generation Africa
- (Essay)
- ... and loans, would aim to: trigger endogenous growth in Africa; strengthen African regional integration; and help European recovery. A few, not necessarily mutually exclusive, institutional settings and ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 8. Federalism in the 2015 and 2018 Peace Agreements in South Sudan – But What Kind of Federalism?
- (Essay)
- The last six decades of the history of what was formerly the Southern Sudan region, now officially called the Republic of South Sudan, have been characterised by conflicts and the concomitant displacement ...
- Created on 20 June 2022
- 9. About the journal
- (Contents)
- ... 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
- 10. Ethnolinguistic federalism and interborder conflict in Ethiopia
- (Essay)
- This study examines the interplay between federalism and interborder conflict between the Tigrai and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. To this effect, secondary data, both qualitative and quantitative, ...
- Created on 22 June 2021
- 11. The future of the EU-ACP relations: possible scenarios after the end of the post-Cotonou negotiations
- (Essay)
- ... favourable to a so-called ‘umbrella agreement’, consisting of a single agreement applicable to the EU and all ACP countries and regional protocols, the ACP States look more in favour of maintaining the ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 12. Centre-state Relations: A Kerala Experience
- (Essay)
- ... instance of the formation of a government through ballot by the communists in Asiatic region. The congress party was in power in Centre and in all other states when Kerala became the lone communist state. ...
- Created on 21 January 2021
- 13. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
- (Essay)
- ... configuration had achieved such stability in the century before 1991? This paper shows how, once they lost their representation in the Senate, regional actors had few institutional levers at the national ...
- Created on 19 January 2021