Special Section: Unity in Diversity Special Section

Federations magazine is about what's new in federalism worldwide. It is a news magazine of reports on current developments in federal systems of government.


 

Photo: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikhs, in Amritsar. A member of the Congress Party, he is India's first Sikh Prime Minister.

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The split-image cover is of two federation’s rivers, Ethiopia’s Blue Nile (top) and India’s Ganges River (bottom). The Blue Nile forms part of the Nile, the world’s longest and most historic river. The Ganges and its tributaries drain a 1,000,000-square-kilometre fertile basin.


Federations: Volume 8, Number 1, january/february 2009

EDITORIAL

Editor's Column By Rod Macdonell
In the News

News

Pakistan struggles to restore democracy and end terrorism By Ismail Khan
Italy’s fiscal devolution moves it towards federalism By Lucio Levi
U.S. trade and commerce power shapes American federalism By Gregory Germain
Indian states agree to create a value added tax By Sukumar Mukhopadhyay

Special Section- water and intergovernmental relations

Ethiopia’s famines to decline with enhanced water management By Rod Macdonell
Forcefully flows the Nile: downstream By Tamrat G. Giorgis
Spain faces growing desertification By Violeta Ruiz Almendral
Thirsty Australia: dealing with drought that crosses state lines By Asa Wahlquist
Wildlife trumps money interests under U.S. federal water laws By George William Sherk
Waterway wrangles beset India’s federalism By Ash Narain Roy

Other Departments

 

PRACTITIONER’S PAGE

Premier Peter Müller explains Saarland’s innovations
as a German state INTERVIEW By Felix Knüepling

PRESIDENT’S PAGE

Best Practice By George Anderson