Bulletin n. 2/2015
September 2015
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
    • Sutherland Peter
    In Memory of John Pinder
    in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXVIII, Number 2, July 2015 ,  2015
    John was held in considerable esteem by all of us who believe in the nobility of the European cause. Indeed he was an expression of that nobility in his personal qualities, particularly in his constancy and humility and even more fundamentally in his essential goodness. He was of course far more than a profound thinker, academic and writer. He was above all a political activist. He sought to apply his abilities to influencing events and not merely commentating on them. He reflected an indefatigable commitment and an activism to advance a political ideal. He did so not as a conventional politician but rather as one who stimulated, provoked and taught in pursuit of a cause that was often far from popular in his own country. It is to that activism, cloaked as it was in a genuine modesty, that I wish to turn.
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