ISSN: 2036-5438
- 21. A Comparative Review of the Federal Security Models in Nigeria and the United States of America
- (Essay)
- ... counterterrorism programme, and other internal measures put in place have failed to quell the security challenges, and the insecurity, such as Boko Haram and kidnapping, remains an intense challenge to ...
- Created on 16 December 2025
- 22. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Gender-Based Violence
- (Essay)
- ... violence. The paper examines the nature of gender-based violence and the various forms in which it is perpetrated. It also evaluates the legal regulation of artificial intelligence on international level. ...
- Created on 26 September 2025
- 23. Common Constitutional Patterns of Capital Cities in Europe
- (Essay)
- ... from dominant "city-states" like Berlin and Vienna to decentralized capitals such as Bern and The Hague – while emphasizing shared challenges in governance, financial autonomy, and intergovernmental cooperation. ...
- Created on 26 June 2025
- 24. 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
- 25. Endogenous Limits of the Right to Conscientious Objection: Does a Conscientious Objector Have the Right to Refuse Even 1-Day Military Service?
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- Işıl Kurnaz Can the refusal of 1-day reserve military service be interpreted in a way that expands the right to conscientious objection? The ECHR's most recent judgment on conscientious objection, ...
- Created on 09 April 2025
- 26. The Global Gateway to Latin America. Strengths and bottlenecks of the European strategy: a mid-term review
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- ... little. We run a mid-term review of the GG during its implementation phase through a qualitative and quantitative. We find that the private sector is experiencing difficulties or showing not as much interest ...
- Created on 08 April 2025
- 27. 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
- 28. Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: the Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts
- (Essay)
- ... 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
- 29. 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
- 30. Nurturing Integration through Dialogue: The Role of Courts in Supranational Contexts
- (Essay)
- ... 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
- 31. 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
- 32. 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
- 33. How Multilevel Governance Structures and Crisis Mitigating Measures Impact Political Trust: a Systematic Literature Review
- (Essay)
- ... 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
- 34. 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
- 35. Federalism and institutional structure
- (Editorial)
- 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
- 36. Hungary and the European Union: the drift towards disintegration
- (Essay)
- 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
- 37. Federalism and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Disability-oriented and theoretical consideration of a legal philosopher
- (Essay)
- ... 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
- 38. 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.
- (Essay)
- 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
- 39. EU for Africa: Revitalizing the Role of the SDR
- (Editorial)
- 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
- 40. The territorial aspect of second chambers in Latin American federal countries
- (Essay)
- 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




