World Federalist Movement
The World Federalist Movement, Institute for Global Policy is a nonprofit registered in the United States and the Netherlands, with offices in The Hague and Washington, DC. It works for more effective and accountable global governance, with a democratic world federation as its aim.
Adapted from wfm-igp.org.
Articles
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Democracies vs. Autocracies
September 2022
The Vostok 2022 military exercises highlight the complexity of global governance. The Summit for Democracy’s participants reveal the politicization of democratic norms.
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The Monsters Still Stalk the Earth
September 2022
The article examines 20th-century dictators and their atrocities. It highlights the need for international law to address crimes against humanity.
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On the UN International Day of Peace is war now too expensive?
August 2022
Modern wars of missiles, drones and armour drain fortunes and have humbled great powers from Suez and Vietnam to Afghanistan, as Russia is now learning in Ukraine. Small arms still need tight control, and a Russia after Putin should be offered cooperation.
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Peaceful coexistence and constitutional moment
August 2022
Great powers will talk as equals only when a crisis forces them to, and the collapse of the biosphere may be that crisis. A truce among them could open the way to an IMF issuing its own currency, an Earth Constitution and a refounded UN.
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The Ultimate Barrier: Nationalism
August 2022
From Russia and China to Brexit and Trump, nationalism is rising in democracies as well as autocracies and splitting the world into rival blocs. While any veto power puts its own standing first, it can block a federal UN.
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Are we doomed to fail? Is Global Democratic Governance a chimaera?
August 2022
Surveys in six countries find most citizens favour a stronger, more equal UN, though people in powerful states guard their own vetoes. Federalists should pursue the reforms that can win, and trust that hard-won norms and institutions outlast a darkening age.
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Religion & Rights
July 2022
Western individual rights and Asian collective ones are not at odds: Confucian and Islamic traditions both affirm what the Universal Declaration sets out. What the world still lacks is not agreement on rights but the means to enforce them.
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How important is our history?
July 2022
Few nations can stand alone, wars leave problems unsolved, and public attitudes swing back and forth. Federalists should court business as well as governments, and be ready to bring a post-Putin Russia back into cooperation, the chance missed after the Cold War.
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Redefining the NATO mission or rethinking the Atlantic Alliance?
June 2022
Taking on Indo-Pacific security would quietly change the Atlantic Alliance without any European debate. With the US looking to Asia and its politics unreliable, Europe must build its own defence, as a step toward global security rather than a Western bloc.
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Retreat to barbarism but the world has moved on
June 2022
The war in Ukraine exposes the failure of international norms. Impunity for war crimes undermines global justice.
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Si vis pacem, para bellum (“If you want peace, prepare for war”)
June 2022
Armies and nuclear arsenals have not delivered security. A rules-based order where aggression is a crime, sanctions bite and individuals face the International Criminal Court offers a better route, and civil society built that court once and can mobilise again.
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Who solves the world’s problems?
June 2022
Neither the UN nor any great power can fix the planet’s crises, because each serves special interests and none holds a global monopoly on force. Only a sovereign world authority with a constitution can, and yearly military spending of about $2 trillion would fund it.
