World Federalism
Voices in World Federalism
All articles in World Federalism
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Carpe Diem
World Federalist Movement · March 2021
The World Federalist Movement highlights pandemic as catalyst for global governance reform. The article traces WFM/IGP’s role in creating the International Criminal Court.
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Democracy, Representation, and Federation
March 2021
The article examines the ideal of democratic legitimacy through elections, citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It warns that this ideal faces significant global challenges, including financial influence, non-contested elections, and foreign interference.
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Using the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession as catapults to a better global future
March 2021
COVID-19 and the recession that followed prove the world now works as one body, so no nation can protect itself alone. Humanity needs a democratic world legislature, and voters who learn at home to choose leaders who serve the common good.
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COVID-44: A Letter from the Future
March 2021
This letter from the future describes how the world’s advanced global governance system successfully contained a deadly pandemic, COVID-44, in 2045. The author argues that a world federation, by eliminating war and funding global health, made rapid, effective epidemic response possible.
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A North American History of Peace Through Union
Young World Federalists · November 2020
The American Revolution’s legacy reveals how union resolved inter-state conflict. Peace emerged through shared purpose, not sovereignty.
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Mondial Summer 2020: Yikes! – Trump’s Middle-East “Peace Plan”
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2020
US President Trump’s Middle-East peace plan sparks global condemnation. The proposal threatens the two-state solution and risks creating a new form of apartheid in Palestine.
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Mondial Summer 2020: Surviving Dystopia: World Federalism Eclipsed
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2020
Myron J. Frankman argues that climate breakdown will make borders untenable, so survival needs a planet-wide basic income, open borders and local governing assemblies, with phones guiding people to safety.
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Trump’s Middle East “Peace Plan”
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2020
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan proposes annexing Palestinian territories. The plan faces international legal and diplomatic opposition.
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TakeAction for July 2020: Global governance and COVID-19
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2020
A UN Parliamentary Assembly, a stronger International Criminal Court and a better equipped WHO are the examples Democracia Global gives in its petition, which stresses that it is no proposal for a world state.
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Albert Einstein from Pacifism to the Idea of World Government
June 2020
Einstein’s exchange with Freud on abolishing war, his open letters to the UN General Assembly and his note to Roosevelt trace a mind moving from pacifism toward federation.
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Coronavirus: Only public powers can protect our health
June 2020
The coronavirus pandemic highlighted global deficiencies, demonstrating that no single nation can manage a crisis alone. The article argues that global coordination is necessary and that public powers, not market mechanisms, must manage essential services like healthcare.
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Asheville Archives: United World Federalists Formed in Asheville, 1947
June 2020
This article details the formation and initial congress of the United World Federalists in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1947. Speakers at the event called for global unity and cooperation to prevent future conflicts and build a world of peace.
