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Mireia Grau-Creus and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet recently wrote a blog on Intergovernmental relations in Spain and the COVID19 crisis.

Jayampathy Wickramaratne has published a paper entitled “Doctrine of Necessity: Stumbling Against the Same Stone in Pakistan - A Mistake Not to be Emulated in Sri Lanka”.

The Baxter Family Competition on Federalism will be returning for a 3rd edition in 2020-2021. The overarching goal of the Competition is to advance research and foster informed debate on federalism.

Considering the proliferation of writings, blogs, videos, and other media exploring the intersection between COVID-19 and federalism, the Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism team has created a webpage attempting to compile them.

"The Bharatiya Janata Party has used federalism to settle political scores, in the process weakening the nation more than ever before in its independent history. As we head into the worst economic recession we have known in living memory, it is the lack of leadership which is being cruelly felt in New Delhi," says Professor Balveer Arora, Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism and former professor of political science at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

In 2014, the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies (IACFS) inaugurated the Young Scholar Award, an annual award for the best unpublished article or paper on an aspect of federalism. In 2015, this award was renamed in honour of Ronald L. Watts.

The 2019 IACFS Conference will take place on October 17th and 18 th, 2019 in Speyer, Germany. The directors’ meeting will be held on the day before the conference. The theme this year is “Unity and Diversity of Civil Service in Federal and Unitary/Decentralised Countries”.

The winner will participate in the IACFS annual conference in Speyer, Germany from 16 to 18 October 2019 (return ticket and three days' accommodation) and present his/her paper.