Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 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
    • Howorth Jolyon, Menon Anand
    Wake up, Europe!
    in Global Affairs , Volume 1, Issue 1 ,  2015 ,  11-20
    We live in a world of rapid transition. Yet while, in the United States, it is hard to escape discussions of the changing international system and its implications, such debates are largely absent in Europe. This is all the more serious in that Europe is both more vulnerable than the USA to the myriad new threats on the horizon and less well equipped to confront them. We outline the nature of the challenges confronting Europe, and suggest that the solution lies, first and foremost, in national capitals. Virtually all EU member states attach unwarranted importance to “sovereignty”, while fully aware that, alone, they count for nothing as foreign policy and security actors. It is only if the EU member states understand the nature of the threats they face and consent to tackle them collaboratively that Europe will be in a position to defend its interests effectively. Full text available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23340460.2015.995346
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