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Introduction: federalism in an era of globalisation
Author(s) -
Watts Ronald
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international social science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.237
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1468-2451
pISSN - 0020-8701
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2451.00286
Subject(s) - federalism , globalization , salient , political science , context (archaeology) , politics , diversity (politics) , political economy , public administration , sociology , social science , law , geography , archaeology
Under the pressure of globalization we appear to be in the midst of a paradigm shift from a world of nation‐states to one in which federalism provides the closest political approximation to the complex diversity of the contemporaryworld. In this context the Forum of Federations, as its first major activity, held an international conference at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, 5‐8 October 1999, on ‘Federalism in an Era of Globalization’. The articles in this issue of the International Social Science Journal are drawn from among the many presentations and back‐ground papers at that conference, and provide an insight into a range of salient issues within contemporary federations.