ABSTRACT
This book is intended to honour the work of Jacques Vandamme, a Belgian federalist, whose varied career I shall describe below. Such Festschrifts frequently consist of collections of re-cycled articles and essays whose only common theme, it sometimes seems, is the relationship between their authors and the person in whose honour the work is published. I should therefore stress at the outset that this book consists of original contributions, published nowhere else, written specifically to the editor’s instructions and addressing a common theme. In editing this work, my first guiding principle has been that the best way to honour an individual is to produce something of high and lasting quality. I am convinced that the analyses in this book will be of enduring relevance.
