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World Federation And The Israel-Palestine Conflict
September 2021
Occupation and nationalism between Israelis and Palestinians grow from a deeper fault: no democratic power exists to protect minorities everywhere. Only an elected world government with real force can end the conflict, and a UN Parliamentary Assembly is the place to start.
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World Federalism – A Mantra or a Pathway
World Federalist Movement · August 2021
World government will never happen, yet world federalism remains a useful framework. The movement should stop debating the end product and build coalitions around concrete goals such as pandemics, artificial intelligence and a nuclear-weapon-free Northeast Asia, as it did for the International Criminal Court.
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Taxes and Sovereignty: A Complicated Relationship
Young World Federalists · July 2021
Jesus’ response to taxation defines state-church relations. The article explores taxes’ political role through history.
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The poet and the soldier
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Soldiers often become peace activists, and soldier-poets such as Wilfred Owen convey the futility and human cost of war more powerfully than argument. Campaigners can make the case through logic and economics, but sometimes poetry says it better.
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Should we heed the New Atlantic Charter? Whose Rule of Law? II
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Law matters because power must be restrained, and treaties, custom, the Geneva Conventions and the ICC already bind states to a degree. A lawmaking General Assembly answerable to an elected parliamentary assembly, and a world court with compulsory jurisdiction, would bind them fully.
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Should we heed the New Atlantic Charter? Whose Rule of Law? I
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
The New Atlantic Charter emphasizes internationalism over multilateralism. The article explores its implications for world federalism and global governance frameworks.
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How to Reconcile the Urge for Nationalism With the Need for Global Governance?
Young World Federalists · June 2021
Under a world federation, nations would keep flags, anthems, languages and schools, while the world level governs only what no country can govern alone, such as climate and war. Nationalists would lose nothing but their fear, and gain one more layer of identity.
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The Chinese Enigma
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
China’s evolving diplomatic approach challenges global governance norms. The article explores tensions between historical isolationism and modern assertiveness in international relations.
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Global Citizen Democratic Participation in United Nations Institutions
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Pandemic vaccine nationalism showed the cost of having no global layer of government. A proposed experiment would let people elect global citizen representatives to attend UN agency conferences, giving a voice to those who have none and building a roadmap towards Charter reform.
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Memories of founding the Spinelli Institute
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Young recruits were the aim when the Spinelli Institute grew out of the 1980 Bari Congress, and its Ventotene seminars drew federalists from Europe, Africa and beyond. Its work should stay on training young activists, not academic study.
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G7 and World Federalism: Considerations for Global Governance
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
World federalists should stop bickering over purity and pragmatism and build on existing models: seven of the eight largest countries are federal, and regional bodies have parliamentary oversight, but the G7 has none. First, civil society needs formal recognition alongside the G7.
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World Federalism is not Big Brother
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Pandemic controls and surveillance have made people distrust states, and critics paint global federation as tyranny. Federalism does the opposite: it leaves decisions at the lowest workable level, demands accountability to the people and reconciles individual with collective rights.
