Event recording | Putney Debates 2021 (session one)
The first session of Putney Debates 2021 discussed the models of national unity, including the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, and Italy.
The first session of Putney Debates 2021 discussed the models of national unity, including the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, and Italy.
Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott’s lecture considers the unity and disunity of the UK. It discusses the diverse histories of the four nations of the UK and what it means to characterize the UK as a ‘union’ rather than a ‘unitary’ State.
Spain has suffered in the last two decades a very high separation tension. In this lecture, professor Roberto Galán-Vioque explains what happened in Spain and what caused its separatist tensions.
In this lecture, professor Francesco Bilancia discusses the constitutional contemporary architecture of the Italian State-regions relations as implemented by the 1999 constitutional reform.
In this lecture, professor Qianfan Zhang, from Peking University, discusses how China has managed to keep its parts together in a centralized framework that is supposed to accommodate ethnic and political diversities.
Richard W. Clary’s lecture addresses the model of federalism adopted by the United States of America in its Constitution.
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