Global Governance Theory
All articles in Global Governance Theory
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World Federation Through the Gradual Accession of Willing States
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Alec Neilly would begin with non-aligned countries and a few wealthy states that favour redistribution, require even non-democratic members to send elected representatives, and apportion seats by population.
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The General Assembly Jurisdiction to Recommend the Use of Force
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
A Security Council veto does not exhaust the UN’s options. Under the Charter and World Court opinions, the General Assembly can recommend sanctions or even force, though it cannot compel members, and it has set up forces before, as at Suez.
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From National Secrecy To World Security: Friendship Sets Us Free
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2023
National governments hide information and spy on rivals at great cost, breeding mistrust and fear while a billion people are starving. A democratic world federation with shared citizenship would let humanity pool information and resources, replacing secrecy with the cooperation of friends.
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The Spring of Civilization?
World Federalist Movement · January 2023
Nation-states have been breaking apart for decades, as a 1973 case for world federal government predicted, and climate change and nationalism now threaten civilization itself. The open question is whether the world federalist message prevails before catastrophe, or only after more world wars.
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What steps for a shared policy between the European Union and the African Union?
World Federalist Movement · January 2023
Africa cannot unify while wars keep many African states from ratifying union treaties. The EU should stop acting only in emergencies and build a shared project with the African Union, starting with carbon pricing and renewable energy.
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Nations Of The World Unite!
Citizens for Global Solutions · January 2023
Isolationism does nothing to stop wars elsewhere, and pacifism has too few adherents to prevent them. What curbs violence within nations, laws and courts that bind everyone, could curb it between them: a UN without the veto, with taxing power and an elected world parliament.
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The Hope for a World Government
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
Fears that a world government would breed strife or be captured by the super wealthy are unfounded. Global diversity would force inclusive coalitions, and a federal level of government would finally be big enough to tax and regulate global corporations.
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Unity is Strength but a common purpose makes unusual companions
World Federalist Movement · September 2022
World federalists from across the globe unite under a common purpose despite diverse political views. The article highlights the movement’s strength in bridging ideological divides.
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India as a precedent for World Federalism
Young World Federalists · August 2022
A Young World Federalists member argues that India, with its vast linguistic and religious diversity under one federal government, answers the objection that world federation cannot work, and that Westphalian sovereignty has failed.
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The Ultimate Barrier: Nationalism
World Federalist Movement · 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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Who solves the world’s problems?
World Federalist Movement · 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.
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Passive Resistance as a Means to Achieve a World Federation
Young World Federalists · March 2022
Gandhi advocates for nonviolent resistance as a path to world federation. He emphasizes the need to free colonized nations and establish a voluntary, inclusive global union.
