My Life in Politics by Lloyd Axworthy
June 2026
Lloyd Axworthy’s memoir explores his political journey and advocacy for global governance. His work intersects with World Federalism and international humanitarian law.
Book Review
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The Future in the Past by S.M. Sharei
June 2026
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The Peace: A Warrior’s Journey
December 2025
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Abolishing War
December 2025
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The Peacemakers: India’s Quest for One World
December 2023
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Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
December 2023
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New book explores global solutions to global problems
March 2023
Keith McNeil reviews ‘Breaking Boundaries’ by Johan Rockstrom and Owen Gaffney, a book and companion documentary on the planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity. He highlights its case for global cooperation and notes where world federalists might extend the argument toward democratic global governance.
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Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes
June 2020
This article examines the legal limits on the UN Security Council veto power, arguing that the P5 cannot use it to block measures against atrocity crimes. It explores three legal arguments demonstrating that the veto is constrained by international law, including jus cogens norms and the UN Charter.
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SDR: from Bretton Woods to a World Currency by Elena Flor
December 2019
Elena Flor’s SDR: from Bretton Woods to a World Currency traces the evolution of the international monetary system from the gold standard through Bretton Woods, the rise of the euro, and today’s multi-currency order anchored by the dollar, euro, and renminbi. Flor also examines the potential for Special Drawing Rights to play a larger role in global finance and considers emerging factors such as the growth of virtual currencies like bitcoin.
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The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power
December 2019
Samantha Power’s memoir The Education of an Idealist traces her path from a childhood in Ireland through her work as a war correspondent in Bosnia to her roles as a human rights advisor on the National Security Council and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama. Power reflects candidly on her idealism and her efforts to advance human rights within the constraints of American foreign policy.
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The Crime of Aggression by Noah Weisbord
December 2019
Written by a participant in the codification of the crime of aggression at the ICC, Noah Weisbord’s book reads without legal training and asks how law must adapt to drones and cyberwar.
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“Straight Talk on Trade” by Dani Rodrik
June 2019
Harvard economist Dani Rodrik’s book ‘Straight Talk on Trade’ (Princeton University Press, 2018) argues that global governance should protect national democratic policy space rather than maximize economic integration, challenging the Chicago school’s faith in autonomous markets. The reviewer finds Rodrik’s ‘federation lite’ model useful for federalists but incomplete, because it underestimates how transnational political movements increasingly shape domestic trade and market stability.
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Anthropocene by Edward Burtynsky
December 2018
Burtynsky’s photographs, a film premiering at Sundance in 2019 and museum shows in Toronto, Ottawa and Bologna carry a single project on humanity’s mark on the planet.
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The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice by Bellamy and Luck
December 2018
Alex Bellamy and Edward Luck examine the decade-long gap between international endorsement of the Responsibility to Protect principle and its repeated failures in cases such as Syria and Libya in The Responsibility to Protect: From Promise to Practice. Bellamy, director of the Asia Pacific Centre for R2P, and Luck, former UN Special Adviser on R2P, recommend combining short-term emergency policies with longer-term structural reforms to close that gap.
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Supranational Political Economy by Guido Montani
December 2018
In Supranational Political Economy, Guido Montani argues that a supranational governance framework modeled on European integration can rebalance politics and economics from Bretton Woods-era disorder through contemporary ecological and globalization crises. The book contends that a supranational world order allows global capitalism, inequality, and ecological challenges to be governed rather than left to uncoordinated nation-states.
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More on peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2017
Ahead of the 2017 UN defence ministerial on peacekeeping in Vancouver, readers are pointed to a podcast on what became of Canada’s mission and a free book arguing the UN must move past old doctrine.
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Book Review: How much does the Euro cost? (June 2017)
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2017
Joseph Stiglitz critiques the Euro’s flawed design and calls for deeper European integration. The book review highlights the need for reform in currency and governance structures.
