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  • 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
    • Subsection of Section D
    1.Federalism
    2.Nationalism
    3.Federalist authors, personalities and organizations
    4.Various/Miscellaneous
    Items of Subsection 1.Federalism
    Kavalski Emilian, Zolkos Magdalena (eds.)
    Defunct Federalisms »
    Ashgate , Aldershot , 2008
    Since the end of the Cold War the global arena has become a place for dynamic change, in particular for federal political units. The focus on defunct federalisms draws attention not only to the difference between state-making and nation building, it also points to the fact that state-making does not necessarily lead to the creation of a national identity.This comparative volume looks at the track record of several defunct federalisms to identify options that have been overlooked and decisions that precipitated the collapse. Bringing together insights from the study of state failure and federal collapse, it examines the ways in which parallel assessment is crucial for suggesting the complex structures of identity accommodation in federal entities.The volume is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduate students as well as university lecturers and researchers working on the issues related to contemporary federalism, history of federal units and the questions of national identity.
    Castaldi Roberto
    Federalism and Material Interdependence »
    Giuffré , Milan , 2008
    Introduction - The theoretical context of the federalist analysis of material interdependence - Historical materialism and the complex concept of "mode of production" - The interaction between the evolution of the means of production and the relations of production and forms of integration - Towards a theory of material interdependence.
    Robertson David Brian
    Federalism and the Making of America »
    Routledge , New York , 2011
    Though Americans rarely appreciate it, federalism has profoundly shaped their nation’s past, present, and future. Federalism—the division of government authority between the national government and the states—affects the prosperity, security, and daily life of every American. In this nuanced and comprehensive overview, David Brian Robertson shows that past choices shape present circumstances, and that a deep understanding of American government, public policy, political processes, and society requires an understanding of the key steps in federalism’s evolution in American history. The most spectacular political conflicts in American history have been fought on the battlefield of federalism, including states’ rights to leave the union, government power to regulate business, and responses to the problems of race, poverty, pollution, abortion, and gay rights. Federalism helped fragment American politics, encourage innovation, foster the American market economy, and place hurdles in the way of efforts to mitigate the consequences of economic change. Federalism helped construct the path of American political development. Federalism and the Making of America is a sorely needed text that treats the politics of federalism systematically and accessibly, making it indispensible to all students and scholars of American politics.
    Meldolesi Luca
    Federalismo democratico. Per un dialogo tra uguali »
    Rubbettino , Soveria Mannelli , 2010
    Meldolesi Luca (ed.)
    Federalismo oltre le contraffazioni »
    Guida , Napoli , 2012
    Grimaldi Giorgio
    Federalismo, ecologia politica e partiti verdi »
    Giuffré , Milan , 2005
    Levi Lucio
    Federalist Thinking »
    University Press of America , Lanham, Md. , 2008
    Federalist Thinking is an attempt to achieve a synthesis among several intellectual contributions in order to reassess the nature of federalism. Professor Lucio Levi points out unobserved relationships among classical thinkers belonging to distant, and generally unrelated, cultural areas. These areas include political and constitutional thinking (from The Federalist Papers to Kenneth Wheare), international relations, philosophy (Immanuel Kant), law, economics (Lionel Robbins and Luigi Einaudi), and history (John R. Seeley and John Fiske). The study also explores the federalist aspect of different political tendencies such as liberalism, democracy, socialism, communism and nationalism (Giuseppe Mazzini). The most recent development of federalism is the trend to become an independent political behavior, represented by towering personalities such as Altiero Spinelli and Albert Einstein, who were among the founders respectively of the movements for European and world unification. A concise and comprehensive account of the development of federalism from its starting point in history to present, this book focuses on disparaging theories and delves into that history.
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    Levi Lucio
    Il pensiero federalista »
    Laterza , Roma-Bari , 2002
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    Parent Christophe
    Le concept d'État fédéral multinational. Essai sur l'union des peuples »
    Peter Lang , Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien , 2011
    Gagnon Alain-G.
    Oltre la nazione unificatrice (in difesa del federalismo multinazionale) »
    Bononia University Press , Bologna , 2008

    Italian edition - Synopsis

    The Case for Multinational Federalism New York, Routledge, 2009
    English edition: Synopsis
    Ward Ann, Ward Lee (eds.)
    The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism »
    Ashgate , Aldershot , 2009
    This comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice and historical development of the principle of federalism from the ancient period to the contemporary world. It provides a range of interpretations and integrates theoretical and practical aspects of federalism studies more fully than is usually the case. The volume identifies and examines nascent conceptions of the federal idea in ancient and medieval history and political thought before considering the roots of modern federalism in the ideas of a number of important European political theorists of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The contributors focus on the development and institutionalization of the principle of federalism in the American Republic and examine the historical development and central policy debates surrounding European federalism. The final sections investigate contemporary debates about theories of federalism and regional experiences of federalism in a global context including Africa, India, Australia, the Middle East, and North and South America. The scope and range of this volume is unparalleled; it will provide the reader with a firm understanding of federalism as issues of federalism promise to play an ever more important role in shaping our world.
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    Giordano Filippo Maria
    The Concept of Foedus in the History of Modern Reformed Protestantism »
    Aracne , Roma , 2012
    The following study aims at introducing the evolution of the concept of foedus within the culture and the history of reformed Protestantism, and at emphasizing the development, over the centuries, of a practical and intellectual attitude among the Calvinists towards the principle of federalism. From the 16th century onward, the whole reformed world - from Switzerland to France, from the United Provinces to England and the Puritan colonies in Northern America - transformed and started using the concept of covenant in a political way. The foundations of the covenant date back to the Bible and the ecclesiological experience of the reformed Churches and communities. This book also aims at showing the theoretical use of the covenant made by some reformed thinkers, with a special focus on the idea of political unity in Europe. Finally, this study specifically aims at showing the evolution of the concept of covenant over the centuries and in the culture of the Waldensian Church and community, as well as its effects on the transformations occurred within their ecclesiastical organization.
    LaCroix Alison L.
    The Ideological Origins of American Federalism »
    Harvard University Press , Cambridge, Massachusetts , 2010
    Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically traced to the drafting of the Constitution, but the story began decades before the delegates met in Philadelphia. In this groundbreaking book, Alison LaCroix traces the history of American federal thought from its colonial beginnings in scattered provincial responses to British assertions of authority, to its emergence in the late eighteenth century as a normative theory of multilayered government. The core of this new federal ideology was a belief that multiple independent levels of government could legitimately exist within a single polity, and that such an arrangement was not a defect but a virtue. This belief became a foundational principle and aspiration of the American political enterprise. LaCroix thus challenges the traditional account of republican ideology as the single dominant framework for eighteenth-century American political thought. Understanding the emerging federal ideology returns constitutional thought to the central place that it occupied for the founders. Federalism was not a necessary adaptation to make an already designed system work; it was the system. Connecting the colonial, revolutionary, founding, and early national periods in one story reveals the fundamental reconfigurations of legal and political power that accompanied the formation of the United States. The emergence of American federalism should be understood as a critical ideological development of the period, and this book is essential reading for everyone interested in the American story.
    Levi Lucio, Montani Guido, Rossolillo Francesco
    Tre introduzioni al federalismo »
    Guida , Naples , 2005
    Items of Subsection 2.Nationalism
    Stolfo Marco
    Si ses europeu faedda in sardu. Deghe annos de lege 482/1999. Sardigna, Italia, Europa. Dieci anni di Legge 482/1999. Sardegna, Italia, Europa »
    Iskra , Ghilarza (Oristano) , 2009
    Bilingual text Sardinian/Italian

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    Chernilo Daniel
    A Social Theory of the Nation-State. The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism »
    Routledge , London/New York , 2007
    A Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline. Its main aim is therefore to provide a renovated account of the nation-state’s historical development and recent global challenges via an analysis of the writings of key social theorists. This reconstruction of the history of the nation-state into three periods: •classical (K. Marx, M. Weber, E. Durkheim) •modernist (T. Parsons, R. Aron, R. Bendix, B. Moore) •contemporary (M. Mann, E. Hobsbawm, U. Beck, M. Castells, N. Luhmann, J. Habermas) For each phase, it introduces social theory’s key views about the nation-state, its past, present and future. In so doing this book rejects methodological nationalism, the claim that the nation-state is the necessary representation of the modern society, because it misrepresents the nation-state’s own problematic trajectory in modernity. And methodological nationalism is also rejected because it is unable to capture the richness of social theory’s intellectual canon. Instead, via a strong conception of society and a subtler notion of the nation-state, A Social Theory of the Nation-State tries to account for the ‘opacity of the nation-state in modernity’.
    Lecours André, Nootens Geneviève (eds.)
    Dominant Nationalism, Dominant Ethnicity »
    Peter Lang , Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien , 2009
    Although nationalism and ethnicity have long been associated with minority populations, an emerging literature looks at how the state and/or a majority group interact with minorities, and how, behind the expression of the nation promoted by the state, there is often an ethnic core. This book contributes to this emerging literature on dominant nationalism and dominant ethnicity by presenting multidisciplinary contributions that center on how states deploy their own nationalism, and how the state's nation-building and nation-consolidating processes are very often spearheaded by a specific ethnocultural group. It focuses on the interrelated issues of identity, federalism and democracy. Dominant nationalism and ethnicity involve the projection, the promotion, and sometimes the imposition by the state and/or a dominant group of an identity, which can be challenged, negotiated and/or resisted by minority groups. This brings questions for democratic practices, since it raises the issue of self-rule. Since dominant nationalism and ethnicity are shaped by ideas and institutions relating to the territorial division of power, federalism is crucial for understanding these phenomena. The book is amongst the first to look at dominant nationalism and ethnicity from historical, theoretical, empirical and normative perspectives.
    Bayly C. A., Biagini E. F. (eds.)
    Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism, 1830-1920 »
    Oxford University Press , Oxford , 2008
    Giuseppe Mazzini - Italian patriot, humanist, and republican - was one of the most celebrated and revered political activists and thinkers of the nineteenth century. This volume is the first to compare and contrast the perception of his thought and the transformation of his image across the world. Mazzini's contribution to the Italian Risorgimento was unparalleled; he stood for a 'religion of humanity'; he argued against tyranny, and for universal education, a democratic franchise and the liberation of women. The papers in this volume reflect the range of Mazzini's political thought, discussing his vision of international relations, his concept of the nation and the role of arts in politics. And they detail how his writings and reputation influenced nations and leaders across Europe, the Americas, and India. Linking the study of political history to the history of art, literature and religion, this volume is essential reading for all those interested in modern nationalism and the history of democracy.
    Reid Jennifer
    Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada. Mythic Discourse and the Postcolonial State »
    University of Manitoba Press , Winnipeg , 2012
    Politician, founder of Manitoba, and leader of the Métis, Louis Riel led two resistance movements against the Canadian government: the Red River Uprising of 1869–70, and the North-West Rebellion of 1885, in defense of Métis and other minority rights. Against the backdrop of these legendary uprisings, Jennifer Reid examines Riel’s religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada’s search for a national identity. Reid’s study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country’s collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel’s voice speaks to these issues.
    Keating Michael, McGarry John (eds.)
    Minority nationalism and the changing international order »
    Oxford University Press , Oxford , 2001
    Globalization and European integration are sometimes seen as the enemies of nationalism, imposing a single economic, cultural, and political order; but, by challenging the 'nation-state' as the sole basis for identity and sovereignty, they open the way for a variety of claims by stateless nations. This book considers these issues from a theoretical perspective, analyzing case studies of stateless nationalism in western, eastern, and central Europe, the former Soviet Union, even Quebec. It presents a variety of experiences to show that while there are no easy answers to conflicting national claims, they can be managed through democratic political processes.
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    Palermo Francesco, Sabanadze Natalie
    National Minorities in Inter-State Relations »
    Martinus Nijhoff Publishers , 2011
    Ethno-cultural and State boundaries seldom overlap. Almost all States have minorities of some kind, with many belonging to communities which transcend State frontiers. These communities often serve as a bridge between States, fostering a climate of dialogue and tolerance. However, when transfrontier cultural ties take on political significance and States unilaterally take steps to defend, protect or support what they describe as “their kin” outside their jurisdiction, there is a risk of political tension or even violence. To what extent and how can States pursue their interests with regard to … read morenational minorities abroad without jeopardizing peace and good neighbourly relations? This is the question addressed by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities in his Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations. The book analyses the Recommendations from the legal and political/security perspective and engages in more general discussion on how questions of national minorities affect inter-State relations.
    Young Mitchell, Zuelow Eric, Sturm Andreas (eds.)
    Nationalism in a Global Era. The Persistence of Nations »
    Routledge , London/New York , 2011
    This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization. Regardless of predictions forecasting the demise of the nation-state in the global era, the nation persists as an important source of identity, community, and collective memory for most of the world's population. More than simply a corrective to the many scholarly but premature epitaphs for the nation-state, this book explains the continued health of nations in the face of looming threats. The contributors include leading experts in the field, such as Anthony D. Smith, William Safran, Edward Tiryakian as well as younger scholars, whom adopt a variety of approaches ranging from theoretical to empirical and historical to sociological, in order to uncover both the reasons that nations continue to remain vital and the mechanisms that help perpetuate them. The book includes case studies on Ireland, Thailand, Poland, the Baltic States, Croatia and Jordan.
    Sutherland Claire
    Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Responses »
    Palgrave Macmillan , New York , 2011
    This major new text assesses the persistence of nationalism in a globalizing world and analyses the current nature and future prospects of this multi-faceted and evolving ideology.
    Barrett Martyn, Flood Chris, Eade John (eds.)
    Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives »
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing , Newcastle upon Tyne , 2011
    Blattberg Charles
    Patriotic Elaborations: Essays in Practical Philosophy »
    McGill-Queen's University Press , Montreal, Kingston , 2009
    How might we mend the world? Charles Blattberg suggests a "new patriotism," one that reconciles conflict through a form of dialogue that prioritizes conversation over negotiation and the common good over victory. This patriotism can be global as well as local, left as well as right. But it also has its limits, for sometimes we need to stop interpreting the world and start creating it.. In Patriotic Elaborations Blattberg discusses, among other things, how to reconceive the political spectrum, where "deliberative democrats" go wrong, why human rights language is tragically counterproductive, how nationalism is not really secular, how many nations should share a single state, a new approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and why Canada might have something to teach about the "war on terror." We also learn about the right way to deny a role to principles in ethics, how to distinguish between the good and the beautiful, the way humour works, the rabbinic nature of modernism, the difference between good, bad, great, and evil, why Plato's dialogues are not really dialogues, and why most philosophers are actually artists instead of philosophers. All this in accessible prose from a genuinely original philosophical voice.
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    Henders Susan J.
    Territoriality, Asymmetry, and Autonomy »
    Palgrave Macmillan , New York , 2010
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    Özkirimli Umut
    Theories of Nationalism »
    Palgrave Macmillan , 2010
    This widely-used and acclaimed text provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the main theoretical perspectives on nationalism. The fully-updated 2nd edition includes expanded coverage of recent theories and debates, more systematic critical assesment of all traditions, and boxes on key thinkers.
    Items of Subsection 3.Federalist authors, personalities and organizations
    Malandrino Corrado
    "Tut etwas Tapferes": compi un atto di coraggio »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2006
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    Preda Daniela
    Alcide De Gasperi federalista europeo »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2004
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    Graglia Piero S.
    Altiero Spinelli »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2008
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    Preda Daniela (ed.)
    Altiero Spinelli e i movimenti per l'unità europea »
    CEDAM , Padova , 2010
    Morelli Umberto (ed.)
    Altiero Spinelli: il pensiero e l'azione per la federazione europea »
    Giuffré , Milan , 2010
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    Trentin Bruno
    Bruno Trentin. La sinistra e la sfida dell'Europa politica. Intervential parlamento europeo, documenti, testimonianze (1997-2006) »
    Ediesse , Roma , 2011
    La costruzione dell’Europa politica ha scandito l’impegno di Bruno Trentin di fronte alla terza rivoluzione industriale e al panorama internazionale degli anni novanta. Prendendo le mosse dall’elezione al Parlamento europeo nella legislatura 1999-2004, il volume ricostruisce l’attività politica e intellettuale di Trentin nell’ultimo decennio della sua vita. Aperto dalle testimonianze del Presidente della Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano e di personalità della sinistra politica e sindacale come Martin Schulz, Sergio Cofferati, Guglielmo Epifani e Susanna Camusso, il libro propone una selezione degli interventi di Trentin al Parlamento europeo e un’ampia raccolta dei suoi scritti del decennio (1997-2006). Come attesta l’esperienza del «Gruppo Spinelli» al Parlamento europeo, emerge una forte battaglia per una Europa federale, capace di promuovere un nuovo modello di sviluppo fondato sul lavoro e sulla conoscenza e di esercitare un ruolo di primo piano sulla scena internazionale. Cogliendo le contraddizioni della sinistra nella storia del processo di integrazione, l’elaborazione intellettuale e politica di Trentin si rivela di grande attualità per le sfide del tempo presente.
    Malandrino Corrado, Savarino Luca (eds.)
    Calvino e il calvinismo politico »
    Claudiana , Torino , 2012
    Del Corno Nicola (ed.)
    Carlo Rosselli: gli anni della formazione e Milano »
    Biblion Edizioni , Milan , 2010
    Morelli Umberto
    Contro il mito dello Stato sovrano. Luigi Einaudi e l'unità europea »
    FrancoAngeli , Milan , 1990
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    Caraffini Paolo
    Costruire l'Europa dal basso. Il ruolo del Consiglio italiano del Movimento europeo (1948-1985) »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2008
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    Ristuccia Sergio
    Costruire le istituzioni della democrazia: la lezione di Adriano Olivetti, politico e teorico della politica »
    Marsilio , Venezia , 2009
    Cadeddu Davide (ed.)
    Dalla libertà al federalismo. Silvio Trentin tra storia e teoria politica »
    Biblion Edizioni , Milan , 2010
    Castro Sonia
    Egidio Reale tra Italia, Svizzera e Europa »
    FrancoAngeli , Milan , 2011
    Rossi Ernesto, Spinelli Altiero
    Empirico e Pantagruel. Per un'Europa diversa. Carteggio 1943-1945 »
    FrancoAngeli , Milano , 2012
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    Zucca Fabio (ed.)
    Eugenio Colorni federalista »
    Lacaita Editore , Manduria (Taranto) , 2011
    Bosco Andrea
    Federal Union e l'Unione franco-britannica »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2009
    Duchenne Geneviève, Dumoulin, Michel (eds.)
    Générations de fédéralistes européens depuis le XIXe siècle. Individus, groupes, espaces et réseaux »
    Peter Lang , Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, , 2012
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    Landuyt Ariane, Preda Daniela
    I movimenti per l'unità europea (1970-1986) »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2000
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    Spinelli Altiero, Rossi Ernesto
    Il Manifesto di Ventotene »
    Mondadori , Milan , 2006
    Foreword by Eugenio Colorni
    Presentation by Tommaso Padoa Schioppa
    Essay by Lucio Levi
    Fisichella Domenico
    Il caso Rosmini. Cattolicesimo, nazione, federalismo »
    Carocci , Roma , 2011
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    Sheehan Colleen A.
    James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-government »
    Cambridge University Press , New York , 2009
    In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison’s National Gazette essays of 1791–92 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces the evolution of Madison’s conception of the politics of communication and public opinion throughout the Founding period, demonstrating how “the sovereign public” would form and rule in America. Contrary to those scholars who claim that Madison dispensed with the need to form an active and virtuous citizenry, Sheehan argues that Madison’s vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government, whose manifestation he sought to bring about in the spirit and way of life of the American people. Madison’s story is “the story of an idea” – the idea of America.
    Rotelli Ettore
    L'eclissi del federalismo »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2003
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    Preda Daniela, Levi Guido (eds.)
    L'europeismo in Liguria: dal Risorgimento alla rinascita dell'Europa comunitaria »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2002
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    Merlone Rinaldo
    L'unificazione europea nel pensiero e nell'azione di Carlo Sforza »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2009
    Mascia Marco (ed.)
    La 'sfida europea' di Altiero Spinelli a 30 anni dalla Laurea honoris causa (1982-2012) »
    CLEUP , Padova , 2012
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    Gagliano Stefano (ed.)
    La personalità poliedrica di Mario Alberto Rollier. Ricordo di un milanese protestante, antifascista, federalista e uomo di scienza »
    Biblion Edizioni , Milan , 2010
    Althusius Johannes
    La politica »
    Claudiana , Torino , 2009
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    Althusius Johannes
    La politica. Un'antologia »
    Claudiana , Torino , 2011
    Marinello Lino
    La travagliata storia del federalismo europeo »
    Monte Università Parma - MUP , Parma , 2009
    Angelino Luciano
    Le forme dell'Europa: Spinelli o della federazione »
    Il Melangolo , Genoa , 2003
    Petricioli Marta, Cherubini Donatella (eds.)
    Les Etats-Unis d'Europe. Un Projet Pacifiste. The United States of Europe. A Pacifist Project »
    Peter Lang , Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien , 2003
    The expansion of Europe marks the end of a process begun in 1867 by the League of Peace and Freedom, a European republican federation with a shared Constitution as a deterrent against internal conflicts, but which also set out to be a guarantor of world peace. This was the pacifist project advocated in Les Etats-Unis d'Europe, the journal of the League published in Switzerland with a name inspired by Victor Hugo. Its objective was to spread the idea throughout European civil society that the union of all European states could prevent war and promote economic prosperity. This volume is the result of the international collaboration of twenty scholars and covers the journal's alternating fortunes until the period following World War I. The essays trace its Saint-Simonian origins, analyse the proposals it advanced to solve international crises and the instruments for settling disputes (mainly arbitration), and place its contribution in the context of world pacifism between the 19th and 20th centuries. While the outbreak of World Wars represented a serious setback, the federalist commitment of Les Etats-Unis d'Europe undoubtedly played a fundamental role and sowed the seeds of contemporary Europeanism.
    Rognoni Vercelli Cinzia
    Luciano Bolis dall'Italia all'Europa »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2007
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    Fiorentini Anna Maria
    Piero Malvestiti e l'Europa. Storia di un'idea clandestina: dall'antifascismo guelfo all'attività europeista. »
    Unicopli , Milano , 2011
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    Petricioli Marta, Cherubini Donatella (eds.)
    Pour la paix en Europe. Institutions et société civile dans l'entre-deux-guerres. For Peace in Europe. Institutions and Civil Society between the World Wars »
    Peter Lang , Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien , 2007
    Despite the decisive steps forward made since the Second World War, the process of European unification has come to a standstill at a political and institutional level. Issues and problems which were already the subject of debate among the pioneers of Europeanism between the two wars have still to be addressed. Although at the time their proposal as a whole went unheeded, with destructive consequences for peace and for Europe, this valuable legacy of ideals has nevertheless guaranteed a continuity and a subsequent blossoming. The purpose of this book is to examine a series of ideas, initiatives and programmes which, between the two World Wars, aimed to promote the maintenance of a pacified international order, starting from the crucial European context. What emerges is a significant and transversal humus, that countered the inexorably prevailing tendencies in politics and institutions, and even in society. Its exponents operated in international organisations, in parties, and in movements and associations not necessarily of a political stamp, as well as in historiography, literature, theatre, cinema and sport, laying the foundations for a rebirth of peaceful co-existence at European and international level.
    Rossolillo Francesco
    Senso della storia e azione politica »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2009
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    Rossolillo Francesco
    Senso della storia e azione politica »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2009
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    Olivetti Adriano
    Stato federale delle comunità. La riforma politica e sociale negli scritti inediti (1942-1945) »
    FrancoAngeli , Milan , 2004
    Critical edition by Davide Cadeddu
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    Preda Daniela, Rognoni Vercelli Cinzia (eds.)
    Storia e percorsi del federalismo. L'eredità di Carlo Cattaneo »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2005
    Bernstein R. B.
    The Founding Fathers Reconsidered »
    Oxford University Press , New York , 2011
    Here is a vividly written and compact overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as the "Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American Revolution, the framing and adoption of state and federal constitutions, and the key concepts and problems--among them independence, federalism, equality, slavery, and the separation of church and state--that both shaped and circumscribed the founders' achievements as the United States sought its place in the world.
    Nester William
    The Hamiltonian Vision, 1789–1800. The Art of American Power During the Early Republic »
    Potomac Books , Dulles, VA , 2012
    From 1789 to 1800, the Federalist and Republican parties held opposing visions for America’s future. Led by Alexander Hamilton, the Federalists sought to establish a strong central government that would lead an American commercial, financial, technological, industrial, and military revolution, and thus propel the United States into the ranks of the world’s great powers. Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans feared that new wealth, power, and competing interests would corrupt the classic republic they envisioned. Instead, they extolled the romantic notion of a republic of yeoman farmers, states’ rights, and frontiers defended by militias and gunboats, all presided over by a weak federal government. Hamilton’s vision largely prevailed in battles with the Republicans over the Bank of the United States, the role and composition of the army and navy, the Whiskey Rebellion, the French Revolution, the Indian war in the Northwest Territory, British confiscations of American ships and sailors, the Jay and Pinckney treaties, and a “quasi” naval war with France, among other conflicts. But, ultimately, Jefferson and his Republican Party would triumph in the 1800 election and permanently eclipse the Federalists. Historians and general readers alike will be riveted by William Nester’s portrayal of the struggle between Federalists and Republicans—a conflict whose core issues resonate in the divisive politics of today’s America.
    Pistone Sergio
    The Union of European Federalists »
    Giuffré , Milan , 2008
    From the world wars to the foundation of the Union of European Federalists - The action of the Uef up until the fall of the European Defence Community (1947-1954) - Crisis and split of the Uef in the years of the birth and beginnings of the European Economic Community (1954-1963) - The struggle for the democratisation of the European Communities and the reunification of the Federalists (1964-1974).
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti I. 1946-1955 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2006
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti II. 1956-1957 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2006
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti III. 1958-1961 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2007
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti IV. 1962-1964 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2007
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti IX. 1985-1995 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2010
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti V. 1965-1970 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2008
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti VI. 1971-1975 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2008
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti VII. 1976-1978 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2009
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    Albertini Mario
    Tutti gli scritti VIII. 1979-1984 »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2009
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    Serafini Umberto
    Verso gli Stati Uniti d'Europa. Comuni, regioni e ragioni per una Federazione europea »
    Carocci , Roma , 2012
    Becherucci Andrea
    “Giustizia e libertà restano gli imperativi etici”. Per una bibliografia degli scritti di Gaetano Arfè »
    Biblion Edizioni , Milan , 2012
    Items of Subsection 4.Various/Miscellaneous
    Beck Ulrich
    A God of One's Own: Religion's Capacity for Peace and Potential for Violence »
    Polity Press , Cambridge, UK/Malden, MA , 2010
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    Aalberts Tanja
    Constructing Sovereignty between Politics and Law »
    Routledge , London/New York , 2012
    This book explores the interplay between sovereignty, politics and law through different conceptualizations of sovereignty. Despite developments such as European integration, globalization, and state failure, sovereignty proves to be a resilient institution in contemporary international politics. This book investigates both the continuity and change of sovereignty through an examination of the different ways it is understood; sovereignty as an institution, as identity; as a (language) game; and as subjectivity. In this illuminating book, Aalberts examines sovereign statehood as a political-legal concept, an institutional product of modern international society, and seeks an interdisciplinary approach that combines international relations and international law. This book traces the consequences of this origin for the conceptualization of sovereign statehood in modern academic discourse, drawing on key jurisprudence and international treaties, and provides a new framework to consider the international significance of sovereignty.
    Bastasin Carlo
    Destra e sinistra. Politiche chiuse, società aperta »
    Università Bocconi , Milano , 2007
    Casadei Thomas (ed.)
    Diritti umani e soggetti vulnerabili. Violazioni, trasformazioni, aporie »
    Giappichelli , Torino , 2012
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    Wylie Lillian, Winand Pascaline (eds.)
    Energy and the Environmental Challenge. Lessons from the European Union and Australia »
    Peter Lang , Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien , 2011
    Bringing together eminent Australian, European and Russian experts and practitioners, this volume makes an important contribution to the crucial debates on climate change and energy that will have a profound impact on all our futures. The problems faced by business, scientists, NGOs, policymakers and researchers are multifaceted and complex in nature, so a comprehensive treatment of the subject is best undertaken by a diverse and multi-skilled group. The authors explore different approaches and experiences in securing sustainable energy supplies in Europe and Australia, while heeding the interplay between public policy, science, business and environmental groups. On the threshold of an era of carbon taxing and energy thrift, the views of the authors on the future evolution of our relationship with energy are as insightful as they are thought-provoking.
    Ojakorotu Victor (ed.)
    Fresh Dimensions on the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria »
    JAPSS Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences , Delray Beach, Florida , 2009
    Malandrino Corrado, Quirico Stefano (eds.)
    Garibaldi, Rattazzi e l'Unità d'Italia »
    Claudiana , Torino , 2011
    A partire dal concetto di "lungo Risorgimento", che dilata il processo di costruzione dello Stato nazionale italiano dalla fine del Settecento alla prima guerra mondiale, il volume curato da Corrado Malandrino e Stefano Quirico prende in esame il dibattito storico, politico e culturale che ha preceduto e accompagnato l'Unità nell’intento di rivedere ricostruzioni stereotipate e offrire contributi di ricerca originali. Oltre che a Garibaldi, Rattazzi e all'idea di Italia, ampia attenzione è dedicata al ruolo degli statisti piemontesi nell'edificazione nazionale, in primis Massimo D'Azeglio, nonché all’idea di Europa, in particolare in Mazzini e nell’eroe dei due mondi.
    D'Amico Maria Elisa
    I diritti contesi »
    FrancoAngeli , Milan , 2008
    Giarini Orio
    Itinerario senza frontiere dal Texas alla terza età »
    The Risk Institute - Istituto del Rischio - L'Institut du risque , Geneva , 2010
    Edizione Speciale Quaderni Europei sul Nuovo Welfare , N. 14
    Piccardo Lara (dir./ed.)
    L'idée d'Europe au XVIII siècle / the idea of Europe in the 18th century »
    Honoré Champion , Paris , 2009
    Bonvicini Gianni, Colombo Alessandro (a cura di)
    La politica estera dell'Italia »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2010
    Pasquino Gianfranco
    La rivoluzione promessa. Lettura della Costituzione italiana »
    Bruno Mondadori , Milan , 2011
    Bilancia Paola
    Modello economico e quadro costituzionale »
    Giappichelli , Turin , 1996
    Lijphart Arend
    Patterns of Democracy. Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries »
    Yale University Press , New Haven , 2012
    In this updated and expanded edition of his classic text, Arend Lijphart offers a broader and deeper analysis of worldwide democratic institutions than ever before. Examining thirty-six democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010, Lijphart arrives at important—and unexpected—conclusions about what type of democracy works best.
    Balcet Giovanni, Valli Vittorio (eds.)
    Potenze economiche emergenti. Cina e India a confronto »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2012
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    Padoa Schioppa Tommaso
    Regole e finanza. Contemperare libertà e rischi »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2011
    Kymlicka Will, Walker Kathryn (eds.)
    Rooted Cosmopolitanism. Canada and the World »
    University of British Columbia Press - UBC Press , Vancouver , 2012
    Canadians take pride in being good citizens of the world, yet our failure to meet commitments on the global stage raises questions. Do Canadians need to transcend local attachments and national loyalties to become full global citizens? Is the very idea of rooted cosmopolitanism simply a myth that encourages complacency about Canada’s place in the world? This volume brings together leading scholars to assess the concept of rooted cosmopolitanism, both in theory and practice. In Part 1, authors examine the nature, complexity, and relevance of the concept itself and show how local identities such as patriotism and Quebec nationalism can, but need not, conflict with cosmopolitan values and principles. In Part 2, they reveal how local ties and identities in practice enable and impede Canada’s global responsibilities in areas such as multiculturalism, climate change, immigration and refugee policy, and humanitarian intervention. By examining how Canada has negotiated its relations to "the world" both within and beyond its own borders, Rooted Cosmopolitanism evaluates the possibility of reconciling local ties and nationalism with commitments to human rights, global justice, and international law.
    Reinold Theresa
    Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect. The power of norms and the norms of the powerful »
    Routledge , London/New York , 2012
    This book explores how the bedrock institution of today’s global order – sovereignty – is undergoing transformation as a result of complex interactions between power and norms, between politics and international law. This book analyses a series of controversial military interventions into the internal affairs of "irresponsible sovereigns" and discusses their consequences for the rules on the use of force and the principle of sovereign equality. Featuring case studies on Kosovo, Darfur and Afghanistan, It shows that frames from one discourse (for example the debate over the responsibility to protect) have been imported into other discourses (on counter-terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation) in an attempt to legitimize a bold challenge to the global legal order. Although the ‘demise’ of sovereignty is widely debated, this book instead seeks to ‘deconstruct’ sovereignty by explaining how this institution has been reconstituted by global powers whose hegemonic law-making activities have popularized the notion of sovereignty as responsibility. Drawing on international relations theory, international law and sociology, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect develops a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the transformation of sovereignty and will be of strong interest to students and scholars in these fields.
    Simonett Jürg (ed.)
    Storia dei Grigioni »
    Edizioni Casagrande , Bellinzona , 2000
    Padoa Schioppa Antonio
    Storia del diritto in Europa. Dal medioevo all'età contemporanea »
    Il Mulino , Bologna , 2007
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    Ferrera Maurizio, Hemerijck Anton, Rhodes Martin
    The Future of European Welfare States: Recasting Welfare for a New Century »
    Oxford University Press , Oxford , 2006
    The aim of this book is to examine the changing nature of the European social model and its capacity to deal with both domestic and external challenges in the early 21st Century. A popular view is that West European welfare states are crumbling under pressure from external competition, while the globalization of production and finance, combined with the policy constraints of EMU, have all reduced the capacity of the state for implementing corrective remedies. More and more frequently, efficiency and equality, growth and redistribution, competitiveness and solidarity are referred to as polar opposites that can only thrive at each other's expenses. The argument in this report is much more nuanced - and optimistic. The authors counter the argument that welfare states are crumbling under external and domestically-generated pressures, they correct the view that national states are increasingly impotent to deal with the range of challenges that confront them, and they emphasize the importance of appreciating the different problems and potential for reform of Europe's clusters of welfare states for accurate analysis, comparison, and policy prescription. The scope for policy innovation lies between the twin constraints of preserving social justice objectives and solving those fiscal and policy failure problems that undermine economic imperatives - at both the macro and the micro level. Yet there is still scope for much innovation in the policy mix in reconciling these objectives. Moving forward with this agenda requires considerable imagination in defining that policy mix as well as substantial investment in new institutional arrangements. As this book stresses, the search for new solutions can be greatly helped by supranational mechanisms of co-ordination and evaluation, as well as by processes of mutual observation and learning. If European societies wish to reset themselves on a course of just growth, they will have not only to re-adapt their welfare institutions to the new context, but must also increase their adaptability as such, enhancing their social and policy learning capabilities and inaugurating novel institutional combinations between security and flexibility.
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    Ferrera Maurizio (ed.)
    Welfare state reform in southern Europe: fighting poverty and social exclusion in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece »
    Routledge , London , 2008
    This new study delivers a detailed analysis of the efforts being made to reduce poverty and social exclusion in Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. After an initial discussion of the 'southern model' of the welfare state, the situation of each country is clearly illustrated. This book also discusses how the experience of southern Europe might bear upon the situation of the East European accession countries. This is excellent reading for those interested in social change across Europe and beyond.
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