Supranational Federalism
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.
Adapted from federalists.eu.
Articles
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Anatomy of a Conflict, Architecture of a Solution: An Israeli-Palestinian Partnership Towards Levantine Federalism
March 2026
Neither one state nor two can break the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock, the authors say, because both sides are caught in zero-sum narratives and conflict economies. They propose three stages, from a regional framework to a confederation and a full federation, drawing on Europe’s postwar example.
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European Union, What Do We Want?
March 2026
The 2024 UN Pact for the Future is silent on democracy, ethical finance, the climate commitments and migration. The piece uses those four silences to argue that the Union should reopen the European project and press for a Helsinki-style conference on security and cooperation.
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Professor Sachs on the Future of the United Nations
March 2026
Reporting on Jeffrey Sachs’s Security Council address, the piece sets the US seizure of Venezuela’s president against decades of American intervention, sanctions and tariffs. It warns that the UN Charter’s survival as living law is at stake, while Europe’s leaders hold back.
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Who Governs Sovereignty?
March 2026
From Caracas to Greenland, protection increasingly depends on alignment with powerful states, not on law, a pattern long familiar in Africa. Recalling the Lomé Convention’s joint parliamentary assembly, the article argues that Europe and Africa should rebuild cooperation on shared authority and rules.
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The Agony of International Law
March 2026
The world is drifting toward imperial blocs, nuclear proliferation and automated launch decisions, the editorial argues, and the legal order as now conceived cannot stop it. Peace needs a supranational government, a court with teeth and a reinforced blue-helmet force, as Einstein urged in 1947.
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War, Peace and Federalism
December 2025
The campaign to widen the International Court of Justice’s role, the article argues, rests on good intentions no great power will accept. Taking up Einstein’s 1947 proposal, it urges federalists to campaign for disarmament and a supranational police force of UN blue helmets.
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Garry Davis: World Citizen and World Activist
December 2025
A decorated B-17 pilot renounced his US citizenship in 1948 after turning against the system that made him kill. The piece presents his life as the case for tying citizenship of the world to democratic world government, since neither works without the other.
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Towards 2029: Ending Europe’s Double Democratic Deficit through Genuine European Parties and Transnational Lists
December 2025
European Parliament elections are still twenty-seven national contests, with candidates picked by party leaders behind closed doors. The article argues for parties with real members, EU-wide ballots and a visible candidate for Commission president, and says only the Council’s unwillingness stands in the way.
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“A Tragic Illusion”: Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After its Birth?
December 2025
Truman, Einstein and John Foster Dulles each acknowledged, in different ways, that the UN Charter fell short of the atomic age. The piece credits the UN’s achievements but argues that, eighty years on, it has still not abolished war.
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A Global Federalist Perspective on Climate Change: Reflections on the Last Conference of the Parties in Brazil
December 2025
Consensus voting leaves the COP summits unable to bind states, and COP30 did not even mention fossil fuels. The article argues that federalists should press for voting reform, back climate litigation and the crime of ecocide, and push the European Union to lead.
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A World Unsafe for Democracy
December 2025
Democracy is declining worldwide, and the interwar collapse of Italy and Germany shows how national politics and international disorder feed each other. The editorial argues that a European Union eroded by national populism would accelerate the decline, a danger federalists must face together.
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A Federal Europe in a Cosmopolitanising World
September 2025
Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s idea of cosmopolitanisation, the article reads today’s wars and nationalist politics as a revolt against an interconnected world. It argues for a politics without enemies, with a multi-tier Europe, a green agenda and citizens’ pressure leading toward a pacific federation.
