Before it became a federation, the United States was briefly a confederation, a much looser union composed of states rather than of peoples. Unions of states to promote ecomomic well-being and to prev
Offers a history the confederal-type unions of the Greeks, the Hansa, the Swiss, the Dutch, and the New England Puritans, and analyzes the potential and limitations of this form of governance in an ef
With an eye trained on the process of the formation of the European Union, former United Nations official Lister examines the formation and eventual failure of three types of confederal systems that w
