Interstate Federalism & Republican Security Theory: History, Research, and Policy

Sovereignties, World Orders, and Federations (2022)

“Introduction” by Brandon Christensen	“Dr. Mengele, USA Style: Lessons from Human Rights Abuses in Post- World War II America” by Christopher J. Coyne & Abigail R. Hall
“Anthropology and the Ancient Roots of Some Modern Politics” by Hjorleifur Jonsson	“To Tyrants, The Answer is “No”: Conceptualizing A Confident, Muscular, and Cosmopolitan Libertarianism” by Martin van Staden & Nicholas Woode-Smith
“Would Somaliland’s Citizens Benefit from State Capacity Libertarianism?” by Scott Pegg	“Polycentric Interstate Federalism Among The Yoruba Of Nigeria: Lessons For Growing An International Federal Order” by Oyebade K. Oyerinde
“Mr. Manypenny’s Millions: Freedom and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth-Century Native American Annuity Conflict” by David A. Nichols	“The Republican Model and the Crisis of National Liberalism” by Benjamin Studebaker
“Reflections of Changing Views of Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty: Resilience and Change in the Liberal State” by Heather N. Nicol & Barry Scott Zellen	“Two Faces of the European Union” by Dalibor Rohac
“Before the Responsibility to Protect: The Humanitarian Intervention in Cuba” by Sarah Burns	“Hayek and Brexit: Sovereignty, National Democracy, and the Fallacy of Positivism” by Jernej Kosec
“Polycentricity: A Simple Rule for Governing Indian Country” by Ilia Murtazashvili & Adam Crepelle	“Hayek’s Federalism and the Making of European Integration” by Fabio Masini
“Adrian Pabst on the Liberal World Order” by Blake Smith	“F. A. Hayek and the World of Tomorrow: The Principles of International Federalism” by Daniel Nientiedt
“A Populist World Order? Origins and Predictions” by Michael Lee	“Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek: Federation as Last Resort” by Edwin van de Haar

Liberty and Security in an Anarchical World (2024)

“Tragedy, Myth, and Liberty in Interstate Theory” by Barry Stocker	“Aggression Abroad: Nonintervention Without National Sovereignty” by Jason L. Byas
“Introduction” by Brandon Christensen	“The State, the Nation, Nationalism, and the Interstate Federalist Tradition” by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“Pax Americana: Is the United States a Benevolent Hegemon?” by Sarah Burns	“Interstate Federalism: Challenges from the History of Classical Liberalism” by Matthew A. Owens & Christopher J. Coyne
“Despotism in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of Nigeria’s Democratic Despotism” by Oyebade K. Oyerinde	“Reintroducing John Witherspoon: Interstate Relations and Survival in Revolutionary America” by Robbie J. Totten
“Individual Liberty and the Responsibility to Protect: Toward a Neolibertarian Foreign Policy” by Martin van Staden	“Secession, International Law, and Human Rights” by Scott A. Boykin
“Non-intervention: The History of a Liberal Ideal” by Bas Spliet	“Decentralized Despotism and the Illusion of International Anarchy” by Barry Scott Zellen
“Commercium et Pax: Local Governments, Free Trade, and Isolationist Policy” by Carlo Lottieri	“Subsidiarity and Secession: Bringing the Austrian School to the 21st Century” by Marcos Falcone
“Debt Diplomacy in the 1920s: The Case of the French and Hellenic War Debts” by Vincent Carret	“State Recognition, Unilateral Secession, and Anarchy” by David J. Hoffa
“Ludwig von Mises and Wilhelm Röpke on Peace and International Order” by Antonio Masala	“Resizing and Restructuring States: New World Sovereignty in a New World” by Joseph Parent
“Beyond Tariff Reduction: A Libertarian Approach to Reducing Non-Tariff Barriers” by Mitchell Palmer	“Conclusion” by Brandon Christensen
“The Non-Freedom of Foreign Intervention” by Thomas K. Duncan	“Dharma and Chakravarti for Liberty: Decentering Hegemony via Buddhist Political Philosophy” by Jason Morgan

Polycentric Federalism and World Orders (2025)

“Introduction” by Brandon Christensen	“A Libertarian Defense of Non-Interventionism” by Scott Duryea
“The Intersection of the Libertarian Non-interference Principle and International Relations” by Michael A. Westbrook	“The Polycentric Production of Global Public Goods” by Nathan P. Goodman
“Conspiracy Theories, Spontaneous Orders, and Global Politics” by Cory Massimino	“Hybrid Sovereignties and Inuit Land Claims: Native Corporations and Resource Co-management as a Continuation of State Expansion ‘by Other Means’” by Barry Scott Zellen
“Whose Scottish Enlightenment? State, Markets, and Global Political Economy” by Clifford “Chip” S. Poirot Jr	“Non-territorial Polycentric Governance of Intrastate and International Relations” by Trent J. MacDonald
“Macht Stadtluft frei? Polycentricity, Urbanization, and the ‘European Miracle’: The Case of the Low Countries, 1000–1800” by Bas Spliet	“Self-Enforcing Federations: Lessons from the American Experience for Interstate Federalism” by Ilia Murtazashvili
“The Forgotten Federalist: Constantin Frantz and the Quest for a Polycentric European Order” by Federico Ottavio Reho	“Managing International Interdependence: Polycentric, Competitive, and Hierarchical Federalism” by Fabio Masini & Albertina Nania
“Starting Polycentric Governance from Scratch in Highly Similar Yoruba Social Environments: Unexpected Outcomes” by Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde	“Globalism and Limited Government—Contrary or Complementary?: A New Agenda for a Neo(Libertarian) World Order” by Martin van Staden
”Bounding Superpowers: The ASI Control Problem, Public Safety, and Republican Constitutionalism” by Daniel Deudney & Devanshu Singh	“The European Union: From Common Foreign and Defence Policy to Federation?” by Jack Birner

Classics and Cult Classics

“World Government Under Law: American Experience With Federal Union” by Samuel J. Kornhauser	“The Philadelphian System: Sovereignty, Arms Control, and Balance of Power in the American States-Union, Circa 1787-1861” by Daniel H. Deudney
“An Economic Theory of Alliances” by Mancur Olson, Jr. & Richard Zeckhauser	“Reviving the Libertarian Interstate Federalist Tradition: The American Proposal” by Brandon Christensen
“The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism” by F.A. Hayek	“Americans Have Devised Only World-Peace Plan That Will Stop Wars” by Rose Wilder Lane

Isonomia Quarterly (2023-current)

“Federations and Foreign Policy: The Quest for Koinon” by Benjamin M. Studebaker	“A Federation for Southern Africa?” by Martin van Staden
“India, the Jigsaw Piece that Didn’t Fit” by Jens Norrby	“Supplementing Hayek’s Vision of Interstate Federalism: Insights from Deudney’s Philadelphian System” by Vikash Yadav
“Concurrent Currencies in an Interstate Federalism: An Institutional Framework” by Federico Sosa Valle	“Against Global Federalism” by Jason Sorens
“Towards A Complete Libertarianism Synthesizing Natural Rights and Contractualism” by Kevin Vallier	“Avoiding Hobbes’ Curse: The Balance of Power & Imperfect Global Order” by Greg R. Lawson
“The Failure of British Federalism: Imperial and Domestic” by Martin George Holmes	“Democracy, demarchy, and international federalism” by Ekkehard A. Köhler & Daniel Nientiedt
“A Federation of Friends: Why Senegal and Martinique sought Federation with their former Colonizer” by Frank Gerits	“‘The Final Promise’ Fulfilled: Polycentricity and the Liberal Colonization of Indian Country” by Misty Peñuelas
“Liberal Roadmap for Political Change? A South African Perspective on the US Declaration of Independence” by Martin van Staden	“Liberty, War, and Sovereignty in the American States-System: The Declaration of Independence at 250” by Robbie Totten
“A Native American Proposal: De-Europeanizing Liberalism and De-liberalizing Federalism for an Old, New World Order” by Jason Morgan	“Spontaneous Order and the Democratic Peace” by Gus diZerega
“The Grumpy Libertarian’s Guide to the New World Order” by Misty Peñuelas	“Equality Under the Dharma: Tada Tōkan and Intimations of a Higher-Order Federalistic Isonomia” by Jason Morgan
“Globalizing the Philadelphian System: Unresolved Issues with Interstate Federalism” by Cruz K. Marquis & Christopher J. Coyne	“Coordination Without Consolidation: How Systems of States Multiply Inward and Integrate Upward” by Trent J. MacDonald
“A Libertarian Foreign Policy Framework for Interstate Federalism” by Scott Duryea	“Trade Wars are Social Wars: Uniting the United States and its Allies Through Conflict” by Benjamin M. Studebaker
“The Blunt Sword and the Sheath: Mindset of the American Proposal, Rule of Law, and Liberal Democracy” by Sébastien Gauderie	“W.E.B. Du Bois’s Double Consciousness: Has the United States’ Federalism Liberated African Americans or Served as an Albatross Since the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?” by Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde & Teri Platt
“Lessons from Canadian Rejection of the American Proposal: How to Frame the Interstate Federalist Bargain” by Michael Lee	“Greater Switzerland“ by Daniel Nientiedt
“(Foolish) Federal Fairy Tales” by Edwin van de Haar	“Classical Liberalism and International Relations: Bedankt en Doei” by Brandon Christensen