{"id":2619,"date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/federalism-risk-assessment\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"federalism-risk-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/07\/federalism-risk-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"FEDERALISM: RISK ASSESSMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 40 percent of the world population lives under the rule of a federal state, but 60 percent under unitary.&nbsp; 30 (16% out of 192 UN members) matured, emergent, and micro-federations practice federalism. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They are comprised not only of powerful and developed nations, but developing countries as well; namely, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Iraq, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the USA, etc. Similarly, most of the 162 (84% out of 192 UN-member) nations such as China, France, Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Israel, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordon, South and North Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, etc. are unitary states. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Federations are found both in advanced industrial nations (European American, or otherwise) to multi-cultural states (Asian nations such as India, Malaysia, and United Arab), to post communist European nations such as Czechoslovakia and former Yugoslavia to Asian Muslim countries like Pakistan. However, former communist countries such as Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and Pakistan are said to be failed federations due to balkanization or ongoing deep-rooted identity based conflict. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the considerable national importance and political exertion over this very issue, research in Nepal comparing federal and unitary state systems has been thus-far severely lacking. Comparison of information advantageous and disadvantageous toward federalism stem taking into account unitary state alternatives has been given below:<br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sosref.org.np\/my_file\/131.pdf\" ><br \/>CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL &ndash; CONFLICT STUDY CENTER, NEPAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 40 percent of the world population lives under the rule of a federal state, but 60 percent under unitary.&nbsp; 30 (16% out of 192 UN members) matured, emergent, and micro-federations practice federalism. &nbsp; They are comprised not only of powerful and developed nations, but developing countries as well; namely, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}