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After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

June 29, 2016 • by Andrew Arato
The electorate of the United Kingdom has voted for an exit from the European Union, suggesting that we may now have to rethink everything on the question of federations. Thus this follow up on my last post. The good news for me is that nothing in my original piece requires fundamental ...
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The Promise and Logic of Federations, and The Problem of Their Stability

June 22, 2016 • by Andrew Arato

Historians are right to describe the 19th century as the age of nationalism. While many also depict the 20th as the triumph of the nation-state, with more justice it could be called the century of its failure, despite the vast proliferation of the form. If collapsing empires brought us the first World ...

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