COMPARING AND CONTRASTING FEDERALISM

IN THE EU AND THE USA

 

Symposium organized by

the Center for European and International Affairs of the University of Nicosia

in cooperation with

Center for State Constitutional Studies (at Rutgers-Camden)

Academia Europea Bolzano (EURAC) Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism

European Center for Peace and Development

Institute of European Studies

 

Thursday, September 25, 2014

09:15

 

UNESCO Amphitheatre, Europa Building

University of Nicosia

 

 

 

09:15 – 09:30          Coffee and Registration


Opening Address:

09:30 – 09:40     Andreas Theophanous

President, Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia


SESSION I:  PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROSPECTS OF FEDERALIZATION OF THE EU


Chair:                       Andreas Theophanous

President, Center for European and International Affairs,

Head of the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia

 

09:40 – 10:00     Giorgos Kentas

Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia

Why the EU shall never become a federation


10:00 – 10:20     Achilles Emilianides

Professor of Law, Department of Law, University of Nicosia and

Christina Ioannou

Assistant Professor of European Politics, Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia

The faltering project of the Federal United States of Europe

 

10:20 – 10:40     Discussion

 

10:4010:50     Coffee Break

 

 

SESSION II:  COMPARING AND CONTRASTING SPECIFIC DOMAINS IN THE EU AND THE USA


Chair:                       Achilles Emilianides

Professor of Law, Head of the Department of Law, University of Nicosia

 

10:50 – 11:10      Odysseas Christou

Assistant Professor of Government International Law and International Relations, Department of Law, University of Nicosia

No Doctrine? An Institutional Analysis of Executive Power and Foreign Policy-Making in the United States and the European Union

 

11:10 – 11:30      Matteo Nicolini

Assistant Professor, University of Verona,

Senior Research Associate, Academia Europea Bolzano (EURAC)

Drawing Boundaries in a Multi-Layered Constitutional System.  The Legal Geography of the EU and the USA

 

11:30 – 11:50   Discussion

 

11:50 – 12:00   Coffee Break


Keynote Address:

 

Chair:                     Michalis Attalides

Rector, Professor of Sociology, Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia

 

12:00 – 12:30     Nicos Peristianis

President of the Council, University of Nicosia

Which Federation Model for Cyprus? – Ideas and Perspectives from the EU and the US Experience


12:30 – 13:00    Discussion



SESSION III:  THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEDERALISM: ASSESSING THE US AND THE EU


Chair:                     Anna Koukkides-Procopiou

Foreign Policy Analyst, Research Associate, Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia

 

18:00 – 18:20     Professor G. Alan Tarr

Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science

Director, Center for State Constitutional Studies Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey, USA

In Search of Constitutional Federalism: American Perspectives

 

18:20 – 18:40     Michalis Attalides

Professor of Sociology, Department of European Studies and International Relations

Rector, University of Nicosia

European Union Federalism and the Legitimacy Trap

 

 

18:40 – 19:00     Andreas Theophanous

Professor of Political Economy, Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia

Revisiting Martin Feldstein: EMU and International Conflict – An Assessment of specific cases and broader implications

 

19:00 – 19:45    Discussion and Concluding Remarks

 

19:45 – 20:15    Reception

 

 

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