POLI 426 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Post-Communism, European Union Legislative Procedure, Hanseatic League

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 426
• Professor: mark baron

Document Summary

First wave: took 5 centuries swiss, germany, italy, us 13 self-governing colonies retain some powers power, canada shared power; bi national country, german, australia, intermittent federations: latin america; mexico, venezuela, Second wave: post war europe including eec, decolonizing asia, india, and africa, postfascist spain; catalonia, galica, basque country, belgium (1831) 1994, south africa, devolution: the uk, italy and france. Third wave: eastern europe post-communism, difficult case: federalism is regularly presented as a solution when there has been turmoil, northern ireland, middle east, former yugoslavia, iraq, africa, india: a special case of decolonization and complexity. Conditions under which federations form: late state formation; germany and australia, colonial impositions; africa/asia confusion or borders (india, modernizers vs traditionalist; early vs late responses, no central authority, pressures. 2: external threat- riker, from mountain passes to german expansionism, market/economic advantages; custom unions, common market. Can be a non democracy be a federation.