I was a bit peeved when Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. remarked at a recent meeting on federalism that ‘I came late to the federalist cause.’ He made the closing remarks at the reception/colloquium for ...

With the 2012 election completed Washington faces a daunting overhang of substantial economic, fiscal, and governance problems. Reform must begin now. Yet from where will the impetus for progress come ...

Sitting in on one of Erin Ryan's classes on negotiation, natural resources law, or property law, one wouldn't necessarily guess that this associate professor at William & Mary Law School is also an ...

EMMANUEL MACRON’S agenda for strengthening the European Union has revived talk of a “federal Europe”. The French president’s ambition will be easier to achieve without Britain: it has tended to follow ...

As a second deadline bore down on Iraqi politicians trying to hammer out a constitution, Sunni members of the drafting committee called for another delay in presenting the charter. Fundamental ...

In response to an unprecedented expansion of federal power, citizens have held hundreds of "tea party" rallies around the country, and various states are considering "sovereignty resolutions" invoking ...

IN its commendable strive to discharge its social responsibility, Vanguard Newspaper in conjunction with the Nigeria Police recently organised a National Summit on Security Challenges in Nigeria at ...

In the context of the ongoing peace process many models for the future structure of the state in Myanmar have been analyzed in public discourse. Among them, federalism seems to be one of the more ...

At the peak of this controversy, Afrobarometer (A.B.), a survey research network, conducted a public opinion survey to assess Ethiopia's political hurricane. The survey assessed the preference of ...

If the Centre’s promotion of ‘cooperative federalism’ is to come to fruition, it must accept the truth of the present times that States play a crucial role in national policies (“Federalism and ...