Conclusions : whither defunct federalisms

Relying on the privilige of editorial 'superpower', this epilogue drafts a hesitant outline of some of the themes zigzagging across the analyses of the preceding chapters. The following remarks, therefore, are not the authoritative version of a 'concluding chapter that ties all the contributions into a coherent whole', but just one of many possible versions. Thus, rather than 'impose and outlook', this chapter illustrates a perspective on the discussions of defunct federalisms in this volume. The query guiding such interpretative reading is: What inferences can be gleaned from the discussion of the preceding cases of defunct federalisms and how do their highly speculative explorations interpret the juncture between federal demise and identity accommodation?