Federalism in a Changing World: Learning from Each Other : Scientific Background, Proceedings and Plenary Speeches of the International Conference on Federalism 2002Raoul Joseph Blindenbacher, Raoul Blindenbacher, Arnold Koller Federalism in a Changing World contains the scientific background papers, proceedings, and plenary speeches presented at the International Conference on Federalism 2002 held in St Gallen, Switzerland, in August 2002. The three principal topics of the conference were federalism and foreign relations; federalism, decentralization and conflict management in multicultural societies; and assignment of responsibilities and fiscal federalism. The volume comprises texts by more than seventy authors from twenty countries throughout the world. Contributors include Dauda Abubakar (University of Maiduguri, Nigeria), José Roberto Afonso (Brazilian Bank of Development, Brazil), Giuliano Amato (vice-president of the European Convention, Italy), Nicholas Aroney (University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia), Lidija Basta-Fleiner (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Richard Bird (University of Toronto, Canada), Raoul Blindenbacher (executive director, International Conference on Federalism 2002, Switzerland), Jean Chrétien (prime minister of Canada), Richard Crook (University of Sussex, UK), Bernard Dafflon (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Joseph Deiss (head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland), Udo Diedrichs (University of Cologne, Germany), Bernhard Ehrenzeller Bernhard (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Lars Feld (University of Marburg, Germany), George Fernandes (minister of Defence of the Republic of India), Sergio Ferreira (Brazilian Bank of Development, Brazil), Thomas Fleiner (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Xóchitl Gálvez (Presidential Office for Indigenous People, United Mexican States), Beat Habegger (University of St Gallen, Switzerland), Nicholas R.L. Haysom (Wits University and former legal advisor to the President, South Africa), William John Hopkins (University of Hull, UK), Rudolf Hrbek (University of Tübingen, Germany), Thomas O. Hueglin (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada), Claude Jeanrenaud (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland), Isabelle Joumard (Economics Department of the OECD, France), Wlater Kälin (University of Berne, Switzerland), Jakob Kellenberger (former secretary of state of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland), Michael J. Kelly (Military Law Centre Department of Defence of Australia, Australia), Rahmatullah Kahn (Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund, Sweden/India), John Kincaid (Lafayette College, USA), Gebhard Kirchgässner (University of St Gallen, Switzerland), Arnold Koller (former president of the Swiss Confederation), Vojislav Kostunica (president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), Yves Lejeune (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium), Wolf Linder (University of Berne, Switzerland), Giorgio Malinverni (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Tim McCormack (University of Melbourne, Australia), Ruth Metzler-Arnold (Federal Department of Justice and Police, Switzerland), Flora Musonda (Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania), Radmila Nakarada (Institute of European Studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), Wallace Oates (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Luigi Pedrazzini (Conference of Cantonal Governments, Switzerland), Martin Polaschek (University of Graz, Austria), Bob Rae (Forum of Federations, Canada), Johannes Rau (President of the Federal Republic of Germany), Ash Narain Roy (Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India), Nafis Sadik (special advisor to the United Nations Secretary General and former UNFPA executive director, Pakistan), Cheryl Saunders (University of Melbourne, Australia), Antonin Scalia (associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America), Benjamin Schindler (Federal Office of Justice, Switzerland), Nicolas Schmitt (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Wolfgang Schüssel (chancellor of the Republic of Austria), Anwar Shah (lead economist of the World Bank, USA/ Pakistan), Daniel Thürer (University of Zürich, Switzerland), Touré Toumani (president of the Republic of Mali), François Vaillancourt (University of Montreal, Canada), Ricardo Varsano (Institute for Applied Economic Research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Guy Verhofstadt (prime minister of the Kingdom of Belgium), Jürgen von Hagen (University of Bonn, Germany), Ronald Watts (Queen's University Kingston, Canada), Joseph H.H. Weiler (New York University School of Law, USA), and Wolfgang Wessels (University of Cologne, Germany). |
Contents
REPORTS | 22 |
Daniel Thürer Federalism and Foreign Relations | 26 |
Wallace E Oates Assignment of Responsibilities and Fiscal | 39 |
THEME PAPER | 53 |
SUBTHEME PAPERS | 74 |
Yves Lejeune Participation of Subnational Units in the Foreign | 97 |
Rahmatullah Khan Implementation of International | 115 |
Udo DiedrichsWolfgang Wessels Federal Structures | 130 |
Ash Narain Roy Communities Civil Society | 325 |
SUBTHEME PAPERS | 373 |
Bernard DafflonFrançois Vaillancourt Problems | 395 |
José Roberto Afonso Sergio Guimarães Ferreira | 412 |
Anwar Shah Fiscal Decentralisation in Transition Economies | 432 |
REPORTS | 461 |
Nicolas Schmitt Problems of Equalisation in Federal Systems | 481 |
Flora Musonda Fiscal Decentralisation in Transition | 502 |
REPORTS | 149 |
Martin F Polaschek Implementation of International | 169 |
THEME II | 195 |
SUBTHEME PAPERS | 216 |
Richard Charles Crook Decentralisation and Good | 240 |
Radmila Nakarada Communities Civil Society | 260 |
Michael J Kelly Timothy L H McCormack International | 278 |
Lidija R Basta Fleiner Constitution Making and Nation Building | 308 |
Kaspar Villiger President of the Swiss Confederation Head | 519 |
Joseph Deiss Federal Councillor Head of the Federal | 534 |
Xóchitl Gálvez Head of the Presidential Office for Indigenous | 549 |
Wolfgang Schüssel Federal Chancellor of the Republic | 567 |
George Fernandes Minister of Defence of the Republic | 582 |
Ruth MetzlerArnold Federal Councillor Head of the Federal | 587 |
Authors | 597 |
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