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Negotiating Global Citizenship and Nationalism: Shifting Paradigms in Hong Kong's Global Citizenship Education

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper critically examines the evolving interplay between global citizenship and nationalism in Hong Kong's global citizenship education. Drawing on critical analysis of existing literature and recent socio‐political and educational changes in Hong Kong, it traces the shift from a Western‐oriented global citizenship ...
Jason Cong Lin
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The drunken dinner guest of democratic politics: Constitutional conventions and populism as a transgressive political style

Global Constitutionalism
Comparative legal literature increasingly stresses the fundamental importance of informal norms that underpin democratic and constitutional governance. A particular species of these informal norms is the constitutional convention.
Marleen Maria Kappé, Jerfi Uzman
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Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the evolution of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements [PDF]

, 2004
The relationship between the European Union 1 and Africa has been formalised since the beginning of the European integration project in the evolving Yaoundé, Lomé and now Cotonou Agreements.
Nunn, A, Price, S
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Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
wiley   +1 more source

Human rights treaty derogation and COVID-19: WHO guidance and state response

Global Constitutionalism
What explains when states derogate from international human rights law during the COVID-19 pandemic? Conventional understanding of treaty derogations suggests that domestic democratic structures, not the crisis at hand, explain derogation submissions.
Audrey L. Comstock
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A Jewish and (Declining) Democratic State? Constitutional Retrogression in Israel [PDF]

, 2017
This Article describes and analyzes an increasing trend of contemporary democratic hybridization and constitutional retrogression in Israel. We seek to reconstruct the Israeli case as a state of affairs where a strong leadership, coupled with rising ...
Mordechay, Nadiv, Roznai, Yaniv
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Whither the state? On Santi Romano’s The legal order [PDF]

, 2018
This essay foregrounds the relevance of Italian jurist Santi Romano’s theorizing to today’s political and legal debates on the relation between state and non-state laws.
Croce, Mariano
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Supremacy Rule of Law in the Service of a Depoliticised Democracy—Pondering the Nature of the EU's ‘Social Contract’

European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 144-161, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Seeing the EU roughly as a political system designed to remove the most essential political decisions from democratic control, while in a large part abiding by legal frameworks, we could speak about an opposition between technocratic legalism and democracy.
Dimitry V. Kochenov, Jacquelyn D. Veraldi   +1 more
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Exception, sovereignty and constitutional order: A Schmittian reading of Turkey’s constitutional trajectory

Global Constitutionalism
This article examines Turkey’s constitutional trajectory through Carl Schmitt’s concepts of sovereignty, exception and dictatorship. It argues that Turkey’s political development cannot be fully understood as a process of gradual democratic erosion alone
Özgür Salmanoğ
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The Social Contract in the European Union's Context

European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-121, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet, Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaca   +1 more
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