Nationalism and Sovereignty
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The Solution is a Global Vision
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
The World Federalist Movement - Canada calls for a world government to end global regression. The article highlights the need for a post-UN structure to address nuclear re-armament and corporate control.
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The Ukraine War And International Law
Citizens for Global Solutions · January 2023
Russia broke the UN Charter, the Budapest Memorandum and its treaty with Ukraine, and the General Assembly and International Court condemned it, yet Russia ignored them. International law has clear rules but no enforcement, so only a stronger UN and court system can make it bite.
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The WFM strategy for a “World Constituent Moment”
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
A coalition of willing democracies cannot launch a world parliament while great powers are at war; only a shared danger such as the environmental crisis can. Step-by-step campaigns for a Global Green Deal and a UN parliamentary assembly could start that process.
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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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Are we doomed to fail? Is Global Democratic Governance a chimaera?
World Federalist Movement · August 2022
Surveys in six countries find most citizens favour a stronger, more equal UN, though people in powerful states guard their own vetoes. Federalists should pursue the reforms that can win, and trust that hard-won norms and institutions outlast a darkening age.
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The Need for a World Atomic Weapons Disarmament Agency
Young World Federalists · July 2022
Atomic energy stayed civilian under the IAEA, but nine nations still held about 12,700 nuclear weapons in 2022. A separate supranational agency, outside the Security Council, could decommission warheads step by step and recycle them into civilian energy.
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Democracy in Decline?
June 2022
Freedom may have slipped since 2006, but the century-long record is hopeful: elected republics have grown from one in 1900 to a majority today. Democracy has always taken generations to grow, so the West should not rush Russia or China or turn the word into a weapon.
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An Unusual Relationship: World Federalism and National Populism
June 2022
National populist movements view the nation-state’s sovereignty as sacred and absolute, rejecting any other political unit’s representation. Both world federalists and populists criticize current international institutions for being insufficiently democratic or efficient.
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Globalism Without World Federalism Leads to Deadlier Wars
Young World Federalists · April 2022
Wanting to punish aggression in Ukraine pushes well-meaning people toward steps that risk nuclear war, because states live in anarchy. Federal subunits almost never fight each other, and a federal world with binding dispute settlement would remove that bind.
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White and Blue
Young World Federalists · March 2022
Russia’s white-blue-white anti-war flag echoes the UN’s colours and points to international law as the route to a free, peaceful country. Nationalism, not patriotism, lets powerful states ignore global law; world federalists want a democracy able to enforce it.
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Mondial Fall 2021: Obituary of Ian Waddell
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
A lawyer, filmmaker and veteran MP who helped draft Section 35 of the 1982 Constitution has died in Vancouver. A backer of a UN Parliamentary Assembly, he was proud of Canadian world federalists’ part in creating the International Criminal Court.
