ISSN: 2036-5438
- 21. The Robert Triffin Plan and the New Bretton Woods
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- Guido Montani This essay investigates how the International Clearing Union proposed by Keynes at Bretton Woods was incorporate by Robert Triffin into the three crucial projects during his intense ...
- Created on 24 October 2024
- 22. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
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- ... right level for governance within a complex, multi-layered system that extends from the personal through the local, regional, state, transnational and international.’ (Waters 2020:227). Taking the cue ...
- Created on 31 July 2024
- 23. 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
- 24. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
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- ... economic communities in Africa. The model’s evident utility for these Community courts has assisted them in their own tasks of interpreting Community primary and secondary laws as well as in furthering ...
- Created on 25 July 2024
- 25. Fiscal Decentralization in Federal Systems: A Comparative Story of a Principle and its Paradigms
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- ... 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
- 26. New Trends in Comparative Federalism. A Special Issue. Introduction
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- 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
- 27. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review
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- ... responding to the pandemic have become increasingly interconnected into multilevel governance structures. Also, studies have shown that political trust is seen as an important precondition for the functioning ...
- Created on 11 June 2024
- 28. Loyalty references in the Statutes of Autonomy in Spain: legal or symbolic value?
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- 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
- 29. Federalism and institutional structure
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- 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
- 30. 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
- 31. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher
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- ... in Federal Systems and Its Implications, in relation to some of the major issues raised by the entry into force of the CRPD. From a legal-philosophical perspective, it is interesting to consider the impact ...
- Created on 14 November 2023
- 32. 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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- The spread of transnational and global phenomena is putting under strain the state-centric bias crystalized, inter alia, in inter-national law and in traditional forms of multilateralism. In this context, ...
- Created on 10 February 2023
- 33. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
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- A long time has passed since the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) were first conceived as an instrument to supplement the dollar as a provider of international liquidity: the first SDRs were officially ...
- Created on 16 December 2022
- 34. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
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- Second chambers are often designed to represent territorial interests, but they are prone to being taken over by political parties which undermines legislators’ territorial focus. In traditional federal ...
- Created on 06 December 2022
- 35. Equalization and territorial integration in Canada: a nation building instrument?
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- ... secession has barely been explored. Against this background, this article explores, from a legal perspective, the internal architecture of the Canadian equalization program with the aim of investigating ...
- Created on 25 November 2022
- 36. Earmarking grants in a federal polity
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- The ongoing transition from layered-cake federalism to marble-cake federalism led to an increasing role of intergovernmental grants in many countries. The field of higher-education is an example. Central ...
- Created on 21 November 2022
- 37. Next Generation Africa: opportunities and challenges of a new instrument reallocating European SDRs to the African Continent
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- ... 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
- 38. The Reallocation of Special Drawing Rights to the Benefit of the African Continent: A Proposal for Euro Area Countries
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- The paper describes the main features of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the international reserve asset issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). After the historic allocation of SDRs equivalent ...
- Created on 08 November 2022
- 39. Next Generation Africa: Economic impact and mutual benefits from a strategic EU-Africa partnership
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- ... on the New Allocation of the IMF’s SDRs” (with Professor Fabio Masini as principal investigator), coordinated by the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF) with the Robert Triffin International (RTI) and the ...
- Created on 04 November 2022
- 40. Time for a Next Generation Africa
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- ... SDRs” , coordinated by the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF) with the Robert Triffin International (RTI) and the Centre Studies on European and Global Governance (CesUE), admitted to the funding by the ...
- Created on 03 November 2022




