{"title":"The Country Of Human Rights, Really?","authors":"S. Goulard","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2016-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2016-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122716099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrations, Diasporas, Global Actors: for a New Statehood in the 21st Century","authors":"Giampiero Bordino","doi":"10.1515/tfd-2016-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/tfd-2016-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124228723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments. Is the Iran Deal a Post-Westphalian Act?","authors":"J. Baratta","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0031","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124437486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments. UN General Assembly Agrees to Negotiate Text on UN Security Council Reform","authors":"W. Pace","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0029","url":null,"abstract":"1. Broadly, there are two areas of negotiations in the IGN (the Intergovernmental Negotiations) the acronym for the open-ended Security Council reform process since 2008 – one on expansion of the membership of the UN Security Council from 15 members to 22-27 members. The second is euphemistically called ‘working methods’ of the Security Council. The first area – expansion – is the most politically explosive – for several so-called emerging powers are seeking new Permanent seats like the existing five permanent members received in 1945 (P5) – the emerging power seekers are the G 4 (India, Brazil, Japan, Germany), the AU demands 2 African seats. Officially, all of these governments are calling also for the right of veto. Expansion of the Security Council is a Charter amendment and requires 2/3 vote of the GA and 2/3 ratification by parliaments/governments, including all five existing permanent members. Since the P5 are not likely to all agree to any new single permanent member or group of four to six permanent members, and since the P5 are NOT going to agree to giving the veto to any new member – this is why the 23 years of no progress could become 123 years. Not only do existing P5 oppose new permanent members, it is clear many if not most governments in each UN region do not agree to anoint one or two [emerging] powers in their region to be permanent members – i.e. hegemons. So Japan is opposed by South Korea and many Asia states and China; Germany opposed by Italy, Spain, Canada and many others in the Western region; India opposed by Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia; Brazil opposed by Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, etc.; South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt opposed by many African governments. Thus, the 23year stand-off is not surprising.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129006065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial. Migration Can Rescue Europe from Decline","authors":"L. Levi","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133396363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments. NPT: Nuclear Weapons and Tension Areas","authors":"René V. L. Wadlow","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0030","url":null,"abstract":"As Winston Churchill once quipped “God so loved the world that he did not send a committee”. The Drafting Committee of the Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was unable to draft an “outcome document” or as it is sometimes called “a final statement”. Even with the last-days efforts of the President, Ambassador Taous Feroukhi of Algeria and the UN Disarmament Secretariat to smooth over the rough edges of the document by weakening all the controversial wording, there was no possible meeting of minds. In the end, the USA, UK, and Canada refused to accept the final document citing the paragraph proposing a nuclear-weapon free zone in the Middle East.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115526461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Reviews. Federalism is in Fashion (Again)","authors":"Domènec Ruiz Devesa","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0022","url":null,"abstract":"A decade later, Barón joined the European Parliament in the first batch of Spanish MEPs after following the country's accession to the then European Communities. Within just two years, he was elected President of the Parliament, overseeing critical events in Europe’s history such as the fall of the Berlin wall. He continued in the European Parliament as a particularly active MEP until 2009, when he retired. During this time in active politics he has also served as the President of the Socialist Group at the European Parliament and President of the European Movement International. In addition, Barón Crespo has published several books on the future of Europe and the European idea, most notably Europe at the Dawn of the Millennium, published in 1999.","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129253463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comments. After the Oil Price Crash, it’s Time for a Carbon Tax","authors":"Alberto Majocchi","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133006297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borderless Debate: Reforming the International Monetary System. Adding the RMB Into the SDR Basket: an Evaluation","authors":"Yide Qiao, Jiafei Ge","doi":"10.1515/TFD-2015-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/TFD-2015-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":426036,"journal":{"name":"The Federalist Debate","volume":"321 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132318798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}