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Book SynopsisThe book gives an extraordinary contribution to the theoretical, historical, legal and economic debate about the continuity/discontinuity in the European integration process regarding the present enlargement and the (projected) new constitution of the European Union. -- .
Table of ContentsContents:
Introduction - Sergio Ortino, Vojtech Mastny, and Mitja Žagar
1. The future of Europe in an era of federalism - Peter H. Russell
2. The historical experience of federalism in eastern and central Europe - Vojtech Mastny
3. The Russian Federation and ‘functional federalism’: lessons from Tatarstan and Chechnya - David O'Brian
4. The role of the Baltic states, Poland and Hungary in the new Europe - Kristian Gerner
5. The image of Europe: the European integration and the new Central Europe - András Bozóki
6. The collapse of the Yugoslav Federation and the viability of asymmetrical federalism - Mitja Žagar
7. National federalism within the EU: the Austrian experience - Peter Pernthaler and Anna Gamper
8. Farewell to the ‘unitary federal state’? Transformation and tendencies of the German federal system - Jens Woelk
9. Italy’s long devolutionary path towards federalism - Francesco Palermo
10. Regional autonomy, cultural diversity and European integration.The experience of Spain 11. United Kingdom and France: a stronger decentralization or just an institutional ‘maquillage’? - Giovanni Poggeschi
12. Some first reflections on the ‘treaty establishing a constitution for Europe’ - Orsolya Farkas and Gabriel N. Toggenburg
13. Functional federalism between geopolitics and geoeconomics - Sergio Ortino
