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Tag: <span>Europe</span>

Tag: Europe

What Union Costs: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Lessons for Europe

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Christian Lammert (Freie Universität Berlin) contends that the Federalist–Anti-Federalist debate over union, power, and liberty offers Europe a valuable lens for confronting its own dilemma: how to build enough common capacity to act decisively without sacrificing democratic accountability and local self-government.

Imperial by Design: Is the US Model Worth Emulating?

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Eva Marlene Hausteiner (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) argues that far from serving as a historical safeguard against empire, U.S. federalism has been entangled with colonial and imperial practices since the nation’s founding—a finding that should give pause to those who assume federal structures, including a prospective European framework, are inherently immune to imperial drift.