ISSN: 2036-5438
- 1. Self-rule vs. Shared Rule: The Design and Evolution of Federal Institutions in Colombia
- (Essay)
- In 1991, Colombia shifted from a territorial regime that combined shared rule with limited self-rule to the opposite configuration: extensive self-rule without shared rule. The radical shift between ...
- Created on 19 January 2021
- 2. Towards a next generation of joint borrowing in Europe
- (Essay)
- Ettore Dorrucci and Stefano Rossi Europe’s experience with the issuance of supranational debt backed by national sovereigns has spanned over seven decades by now. Despite differing aims and designs, ...
- Created on 02 February 2026
- 3. US Federalism and the North-South Conflict: From Bicommunalism to Centralization
- (Essay)
- Karl Kössler This article seeks to explore to what extent and how the North-South conflict in the United States and attempts at its resolution have interacted with the evolution of American federalism. ...
- Created on 08 January 2026
- 4. London: The Past, Present, and Future of the Seat of Constitutional Monarchy
- (Essay)
- Oliver Garner London is the capital city of the United Kingdom. This unitary state is composed of four constituent nations under the ‘devolution’ arrangements, that may be regarded as ‘asymmetric ...
- Created on 08 July 2025
- 5. Rome as a Determinant of the National Constitutional Identity
- (Essay)
- Ylenia Maria Citino This paper explores the evolution of the constitutional status of Rome within Italy’s legal and political framework, arguing that the city’s symbolic and functional significance ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 6. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Introduction
- (Editorial)
- Giuseppe Martinico and Matteo Monti In this special issue we will address some of the clichés present in the study of comparative federalism. In so doing we shall focus on little-explored federalising ...
- Created on 22 July 2024
- 7. An Inconvenient truth: the narrow trade-off between Equity and Climate Security
- (Essay)
- ... addressing both climate change and inequality altogether. Initially, a review of the existing literature delineates the evolution of how the relation between climate mitigation policy, growth and inequality ...
- Created on 17 October 2023
- 8. European Republicanism and the Return of Geopolitics in European Integration Theory
- (Essay)
- ... put forward by the German Green party. Afterwards, the historic evolution of the economic paradigm in European integration theories is analyzed. Finally, European republicanism is presented as an alternative ...
- Created on 28 July 2022
- 9. The Conference on the Future of Europe and the Reform of the EU
- (Editorial)
- The Conference on the future of Europe is underway. The Conference on the future of Europe is underway. It may pave the way to a reform of the EU. Or it may go down in history as a lost opportunity, ...
- Created on 30 November 2021




