Bulletin n. 3/2015
January 2016
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
    • Baratta Joseph Preston
    Is the Iran Deal a Post-Westphalian Act?
    in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXVIII, Number 3, November 2015 ,  2015
    The Iran deal — technically an executive agreement between the United States of America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran to contain Iran’s potential to develop nuclear weapons — has now met the test of opposition in the U.S. Senate. The agreement was not a treaty requiring, under the U.S. Constitution, a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate for ratification, but President Obama found it prudent to invite Senate debate on so “historic” a step in diplomacy. The Republicans might have passed a resolution to reject it by simple majority, but the president promised a veto, which meant, to override, a two-thirds majority would be needed. In the end he found 42 Democrats to support the agreement, so that, under evolving Senate rules, the Republicans did not have the 60 votes necessary to break a Democratic filibuster to stop any resolution.
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