Global Governance Theory
All articles in Global Governance Theory
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Humanity has Two Choices: Political Unification or Mass-Suicide
World Federalist Movement · August 2024
Arnold Toynbee warned that the atomic age forces a choice between political unification and self-destruction. His remedy was a minimal federal world government, adopted by consent and limited to what survival requires, which now covers climate change too.
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A Comment on War, Peace and the Federalist Initiative
World Federalist Movement · August 2024
Nuclear war and climate collapse cannot be tackled while the great powers drift back toward the conditions of the interwar years. A new Bretton Woods-style reform of the IMF and a UN reform commission come first; world federation can only follow pacification.
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Non-Violence and International Pacification
World Federalist Movement · June 2024
Gandhi’s non-violence and Weber’s ethics of responsibility meet in Einstein’s call for a supranational police force. A first step is a global petition to add a right not to kill to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, letting citizens refuse military service.
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The Best Thing You Can Do to Save Humanity from Itself
Citizens for Global Solutions · June 2024
Wars and environmental ruin persist because the UN is a club of sovereign states with a veto-wielding few. A federal government limited to global issues, as the US and EU show on smaller scales, would protect national sovereignty, but only if citizens demand it.
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Who Speaks for Earth? Towards a World Space Programme
World Federalist Movement · March 2024
Space activity is outgrowing weak treaties, and no institution can speak for humanity beyond Earth. A UN-backed world space agency, a UN parliamentary assembly and ultimately a federal world government could keep space a source of cooperation rather than rivalry.
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A Global Community of Shared Future: A Critique of Beijing’s Vision for Global Order
World Federalist Movement · March 2024
China’s vision for global order emphasizes consultation and sovereign equality. World federalists must critique its lack of global citizenship and transference of authority.
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Mondial Winter 2023: Letter From the Editorial Board
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2023
Mondial marks the 75th anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention. The journal advocates for democratic world federation as a framework for global peace and justice.
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Impunity and Models of Global Order: A Baha’i Perspective
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
The Baha’i Faith envisions a federal world governance system as a path to global peace. The article links this vision to Pinker’s thesis on declining violence and critiques current trends in conflict and impunity.
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World federalism for Belarus
Young World Federalists · August 2023
Isolation, nationalism and political imprisonment are growing in Belarus, and its government cannot find a way out. A democratic world federation would bring freedom of movement, global citizenship education, peace at the borders and enforceable human rights.
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Where are the answers to humanity’s great questions and challenges?
World Federalist Movement · June 2023
Humanity’s deepest problems persist because universities, think tanks, religions and media keep repeating old ideas. A free academy of seven to 21 thinkers, paid without performance demands, should start from scratch on science, politics and morality.
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What is our Journey?
World Federalist Movement · May 2023
Everyone has a conscience, religious or not, and rulers fear religion because it divides allegiance and teaches care for others. International law must stay universal and secular, yet it needs conscience to guide it and reconciliation between faiths.
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Gorbachev, the Tragic Hero of Federalism
World Federalist Movement · May 2023
Mikhail Gorbachev’s peaceful transition from totalitarianism to democracy faced collapse due to delayed elections. His reforms sparked federal fragmentation and loss of central legitimacy.
