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1. The real choice: European or national rearmament, supranational or intergovernmental European defence?: (Editorial); ... global, solutions, two proposals usually are put forward. On the one hand a federalist one, aiming at creating a truly supranational policy to deal with the issue. On the other hand an intergovernmental ...; Created on 09 May 2025
2. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe: (Essay); Giovanni Boggero This paper examines the dual role of European capital cities as both symbols of national sovereignty and autonomous local government units. Despite their increasing prominence in ...; Created on 26 June 2025
3. Troubled Legacies: The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 and the Thin Line Between Impunity and Reconciliation: (Essay); ... the Irish government lodged an inter-state appeal against the United Kingdom before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the second time since the 1978 judgment on Ireland v. United Kingdom (I) ...; Created on 18 June 2025
4. Modi’s Nehru Jacket: President’s Rule Invocations during the tenures of Prime Ministers Nehru and Modi: (Essay); Panch Rishi Dev Sharma The President’s Rule impositions under Article 356 of the Constitution of India extraordinarily empower the central government to determine ‘constitutional machinery failure ...; Created on 20 November 2024
5. New Caledonia: a Promising Attempt to Constitutionalize a Sovereignty Conflict Going Wrong: (Essay); ... two years after the inconclusive third and last independence referendum, tensions escalated and in May 2024, following deadly riots over a voting reform proposal, the French Government declared a 12-day ...; Created on 01 August 2024
6. The Road Less Travelled: Constitutionalising Internal Secession: (Essay); ... and administrative efficiency. Moreover, according to the procedures outlined in Article 47(3), it appears as though the federal and state governments are not empowered to play a decisive role in the internal ...; Created on 01 August 2024
7. Two Western Canadian Provinces Asserting Provincial Sovereignty Seek to Challenge the Fundamentals of Canadian Constitutional Democracy and Order: (Essay); ... the fundamentals of Canadian constitutional democracy and the rule of law. A former secessionist government in Quebec had used the sovereignty concept to claim a right to unilaterally declare independence ...; Created on 31 July 2024
8. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms: (Essay); ... institutional framework and the dynamics of intergovernmental relations within federal systems. It appreciates both the self-rule and shared-rule dimensions, with the latter serving as an architectural ...; Created on 25 July 2024
9. ‘Spearheaded Asymmetry’ in “Multinational” European Federalising Processes: the Asymmetric Challenges in ‘Regional States’: (Essay); ... minorities are enriched by the aspiration to acquire the highest self-government possible within regional states (as a transitional asymmetry) and, simultaneously, to see their differential status recognised ...; Created on 24 July 2024
10. The Current Challenges to Asymmetric Federalism in India in Comparative Perspective: (Essay); ... in India in 2019 by the Union government and its judicial approval in 2023 has been very challenging to Indian federalism. Since the States in India are based mostly on some ethnic identity, any attack ...; Created on 22 July 2024
11. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review: (Essay); ... tiers of government (in)directly influence citizens’ trust and as citizens can express trust in different levels simultaneously. However, the effect of both contexts on political trust is rarely studied. ...; Created on 11 June 2024
12. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?: (Essay); Gonzalo Gabriel Carranza The federal loyalty in Spain is an unwritten constitutional principle that binds the State and the Autonomous Communities in their intergovernmental relations, as well ...; Created on 30 April 2024
13. Sub-national Constitutional Law in Argentina: Considerations on the nature and scope of provincial constitutions: (Essay); ... law, through analysing the principle of constitutional autonomy, the distribution of powers between levels of government and the co-sovereignty theory. The article concludes with reflections on Argentina’s ...; Created on 12 March 2024
14. Indefinite detention of refugees ruled unconstitutional by the High Court of Australia – an opportunity for Europe to pause for thought?: (Notes); ... with no prospects of resettlement to be unconstitutional. As governments around the world grapple with the challenges posed by mass migration, this article considers the consequences of the High Court ...; Created on 05 March 2024
15. The Functional Federalism of the United Arab Emirates: (Essay); ... of powers between the federal government and the emirates. The analysis clarifies that despite evidence of dual and administrative federalism features, the UAE federalism model is still in the making. ...; Created on 31 January 2024
16. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration: (Essay); ... identity, and furthermore by the unorthodox action it has taken against the Union’s federal policy of closing ranks in the face of the Russian-Ukrainian state of war, the Hungarian government, which achieved ...; Created on 22 January 2024
17. EU law and inter se agreements in defence matters: Mapping the interplay: (Essay); ... Based on a comparison with other policy areas, the paper argues that the incorporation of EUROCORPS and other intergovernmental defence cooperation initiatives within the EU legal order would not require ...; Created on 30 May 2023
18. 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
19. Marching in line through the crisis or setting one’s own course in fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? A comparison of six policies, 16 states and two shutdowns in the German federation: (Essay); When combating the pandemic, federations face the additional challenge that the responsibilities for political actions do not reside in one hand but are divided between several governments. Therefore, ...; Created on 15 December 2022
20. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries: (Essay); ... theory, a senate mediates the relationship between democracy and federalism because it enables subnational participation in national government. Recent literature challenges this assumption and provides ...; Created on 06 December 2022

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