As Global Constitutionalism enters its third year, we want to take the opportunity to refl ect on and explore the conceptual and institutional boundaries of the world of global constitutionalism. In our fi rst editorial two years ago we defi ned the mission of the journal to promote a deeper...

Altneuland: The European Constitutional Terrain It is in many respects a New Land - for the first time the Union is openly, officially using the word Constitution in its formal self-understanding. But this, in turn, places it, at least lexically, in the age old terrain of constitutionalism which...

According to conventional republican accounts of political vices and virtues, solidarity is a virtue that strengthens the polity and corruption is a vice that undermines political and social bonds. Season 2 of “The Wire� offers the figure of Frank Sabotka as a counter-exemple to this...

Scholars such as Stephen Krasner, Nicholas Onuf, Justin Rosenberg and Benno Teschke have called into question the significance of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 as the date when the international system formed. One of their primary arguments is that the non-intervention norm typically...