Based on a talk given by Daniel Wheatley, Government Relations Officer of the Bahá’í Community of the UK, to the AGM of Federal Union, 12 March 2005. May I begin […]
Can multilateralism be effective? Protecting human rights Read More »
My earlier posting about the causes of war seems to have raised same eyebrows. I promised to explain. The point I made was that previous wars in Europe were caused
War and European integration Read More »
Some maths inspired by an letter published in The Times on 2 November 2004. The letter, from Conservative MPs Bill Cash, Angela Browning, Edward Leigh and Richard Shepherd, opposed the European
Bilateral treaties Read More »
An article by Professor Apolo Nsibambi, Prime Minister of Uganda, explaining the meaning of federalism: “I invite people for an improvement of the definition and analysis of federalism. We must
What is federalism? Read More »
Democracies may find it harder to go to war but they do not find it impossible. As Sir Samuel Brittan acknowledges, the human tendency to divide the world into in-groups
Democracies can be warmongers too Read More »
By Conrad Russell At the moment, when I am asked whether I am working on history or politics, I often find it very difficult to answer. This is because of
The dream of sovereignty Read More »
By Abdul Sayed Prior to the Italian occupation in 1890 the present Eritrean territories, as they stand today, never consisted of one entity. The three regions that Italy moulded together
The case for Eritrean federalism Read More »
National sovereignty – the claim of a state (that is to say by its government) to be judge and jury in its own cause – has been an assumed right
The slow death of national sovereignty Read More »
By Richard Laming Concern about nationalism and national identity is the basis of the enduring debate about the future of the European Union today: given how stubbornly the countries of
Federalism and national identity Read More »
Notes for “Federalism as a new political thinking”, Ventotene, 2 September 2002, by Richard Laming Examples of rival forms of political thinking – Nationalists – people we are clearly opposed
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