Bulletin n. 3/2009
January 2010
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Maier Hans
    Ein Provisorium hat sich bewährt. Das Grundgesetz nach 60 Jahren
    in Zeitschrift für Politik , Jahrgang 56, Heft 4, 2009 ,  2009
    Summary The initial conditions for the Federal Republic of Germany were not easy: Germans had to face the outcome of World War II., the heritage of National Socialism and the fact of a splitted Germany in the just started Cold War. With this background, the German Grundgesetz was a really notable chance for a new beginning. Principles like the strong state of law, the militant democracy and the strengthening of the executive show that the German Constitution has learned its lessons from the disaster of the Republic of Weimar. History until now shows that these elements were the best basis for the success of the Federal Republic. In addition, the historically rooted federal organisation protects against a too powerful central authority. The end of the Cold War and the European integration are new challenges for the reunified Germany: it needs a new self-perception which combines the difficulties based in the German history and a kind of normality for the German people.
    ©2001 - 2020 - Centro Studi sul Federalismo - P. IVA 94067130016