Books in the Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization series

Decision-making within the EU has moved to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (Union) and second (member state) levels. Multi-level governance can increasingly be identified. These papers describe and analyse this third level.

This volume traces the origins of the complex system of devolution and regional home rule that currently shapes and directs the Spanish political process.

This work contributes to a better understanding of the growing subnational involvement in foreign affairs, offering a general view of the most prominent aspects in the development of subnational foreign action around the world,

This volume explores the common trends and differences in the responses of the new post-Soviet states to the problems of state-building in ethnically and regionally divided societies.

This book combines theoretical essays with probing case studies to examine the effects of economic and political restructuring in Europe and North America on regions on these two continents.