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When Global Citizens Awaken: An Opportunity for Global Federalism

Originally published by Supranational Federalism · March 2026

Democracy is stagnating while powerful minorities tighten their grip, the piece argues, and ordinary people cannot leave world order to politics or business. It urges individuals to examine their own needs, join movements and citizens’ assemblies, and help bring federalism to the world.

From the beginning and again and again. In the end, humans emerged from evolution. We have no scientific explanation as to why he was born or should live. His existence seems to be a coincidence. Or is it? Over the millennia, we have learned, sometimes better, sometimes worse, that we are not alone on this planet. Cultures, homeland, societies and personal circumstances have shaped us and we have learned from them, and are currently learning again, that we are not only dependent on each other, but also strongly dependent on each other.

At the beginning of the world, people from all continents were born with equal rights and dignity. During our personal development, we matured from subjects to citizens. This results in locations of the branch, affiliation, rights and obligations. A survey in 59 countries has shown that 70% identify as “global citizens” with an increasing tendency. Humanity is often referred to as one big “one family”. The question remains: How do we, as individuals or as part of the big family, deal with other people in other societies, in other families? Historically, history has shown many models of coexistence and a wide variety of people have had a wide variety of experiences in the world in the course of their lives.

Challenges as opportunities. Every inhabitant of the earth has grown into a citizen of the world by participating in living together with others. A citizen of the world, truly grown into the “unique” of his kind and ancestry. There is only him as an individual, whether he wanted to, sought it or not; He was never asked about this. He is there now and will be forced by the social systems to take a personal path in life and to take responsibility for his existence. Over the years, his behaviour will betray his innermost being: either he rules himself or he is governed.

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Originally published by Supranational Federalism in March 2026. Read the original.

Supranational Federalism, The World Citizens' Journal, is a quarterly in English edited by Guido Montani, honorary member of the Union of European Federalists. Published since September 2025 under the auspices of the Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies in Ventotene, it seeks a dialogue between peoples, nations and civilisations on a just and peaceful world order founded on democratic supranational institutions. It is open to writers from every country and especially invites young people to contribute.

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Rohland, Christoph J. “When Global Citizens Awaken: An Opportunity for Global Federalism.” Supranational Federalism, Mar. 2026, https://federalists.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Supranational-Federalism-No-3.pdf. Republished in Mondial, https://mondial.press/articles/2026/03/when-global-citizens-awaken/.

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