study centre intends to contribute to an interdisciplinary analysis considering all levels of government.

Supranational federalism and the process of European integration:

• History of the process of European integration and the role of the movements promoting European unity;
• Analyses of the interpretative theories of European integration;
• Relationship between federalist thought and other schools of political thought (historical materialism, political ecology, etc.);
• Contribution of civil society to building Europe;
• The debate on the istitutional reform of the EU;
• Principle of subsidiarity within the framework of the EU;
• The European budget and fiscal federalism;
• The EU’s international role and its foreign and security policy;
• The EU’s environmental policies;
• The EU’s industrial policies (support to Research&Development); 

Globalisation and the prospects for the democratisation of the international system:  

• Origins, implications and developments of the process of globalisation;
• Crisis of the nation state;
• The transformation of international systems;
• The processes of regional integration throughout the world;
• Reform of the United Nations and world federalism;
• The contribution of civil society to the evolution of the international system;
• Juridical, historical and political aspects of the International Criminal Court;
• The process of democratisation in international organisations and their reforms;
• The evolution of security in global governance: theories, paradigms and tools.

Sub-national and comparative federalism:

• A comparison of federalist models;
• The principle of subsidiarity;
• Fiscal federalism;
• "Differentiated" regionalism in Italy;
• The reform of "Title V" of the Italian Constitution;
• The Spanish model of autonomy;
• Role of the Regions and of the local power centres within the EU.