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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The Constitution of the Earth: Two Converging Methodologies
September 2025
Luigi Ferrajoli’s book proposes a Federation of the Earth that guards peace, the environment and social rights through institutions of guarantee, not a world super-state. The article sets it beside the step-by-step method of European federalists and argues the two routes support each other.
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Federal Governance for Europe and the World
September 2025
Pooling sovereignty in transnational institutions is the answer to the aggression that national fragmentation breeds. Federalism supplies three principles for it: democratic legitimacy through elections, solidarity through financial transfers, and subsidiarity across levels of government, not a superstate.
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The Currency of the Future: Trust and a New Bretton Woods
September 2025
Humans evolved to cooperate in small tribes, yet now face planetary threats. The piece sketches a polycentric order built on transparency, shared stories and federal lessons, with a climate-finance currency and ecological courts among its parts.
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Transnational Money
September 2025
American control of the dollar and the SWIFT payment system, used to impose sanctions, has stalled alternatives from BRICS Pay to the BIS’s mBridge. A neutral international currency, the piece argues, depends on a supranational federation, because the obstacle is political, not technical.
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The Difficult Peaceful Coexistence in South Asia
September 2025
After the Kashmir attack and the brief clashes that followed, the article traces colonial legacies, arms dependence on outside powers, China’s reach and the unresolved Indus waters. Reviving regional cooperation through SAARC, it says, would help, since neither country can afford a long war.
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Why Supranational Federalism
September 2025
Nuclear arms and a warming planet now threaten every continent at once. The editorial argues that the long separation between world and European federalists should end, and offers the journal as a forum for abolishing war and avoiding climate catastrophe.
