One World Democracy
A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law
By Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitsos
One World Democracy presents the only viable long-term solution to today's most urgent global problems: democratic world government and the rule of enforceable global law—a federation of all nations.
After centuries of warfare, Europe has accomplished just such a transformation by outlawing war between the member states of the European Union. This book shows how to do the same thing at the global level through implementing the only time-tested solution to violence and injustice—law and democratic government.
Humanity has a sovereign right to govern itself; read this book to find out how we can create a new social contract for the entire planet.
World peace, global justice, and a sustainable planet are all possible—through enforceable global law
$16 (including shipping and handling), 255 pages, soft cover. Published by Origin Press, 2005.
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The Anatomy of Peace
By Emery Reves
Published around the end of World War II, The Anatomy of Peace explained why addiction to the outmoded concept of sovereignty and one's nation-state above all else and the related failure of the League of Nations would not end wars under a re-tooled League, the United Nations. This instantaneous best seller that turned on tens of thousands to world federalism has been translated into 20 languages. Read this exciting masterpiece and see how today, over fifty years later, the book is as timely as when it was first written.
"Sovereignty would continue to reside in the people. To transfer certain aspects of our sovereign rights from national legislative, judiciary and executive bodies to create , apply, and execute law for the regulation of human relationships in the international field is not 'surrender ' but acquisition."
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Journey to a Governed World
By Lucile Green, Ph.D.
In this collection of essays, articles and lectures. Green, a World Federalist from Northern California, recounts her fifty-year journey to a governed world starting from China, where she was the daughter of missionaries. It is the chronicle of on dedicated individual striving against impossible odds to make a difference by changing the way people think about world problems. She brings unique insight, flavored by her background in Eastern philosophy, to issues such as disarmament, environmental preservation, the role of women, and especially matters of world organization. Each essay remains fresh and timely -- an important guide to the traveler still searching for a more rational way to manage this planet.
From forword by Benjamin B. Ferencz, Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor
List price is $9.95, our special price $8.00 (including shipping and handling) 157 pages, paperback published by The Uniquest Foundation, 1992.
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One Shining Moment
The Untold Story of the American Student World Federalist Movement, 1942-1953
By Gilbert Jonas
The Student Federalists pressed their elders and contemporaries to consider the establishment of a world government based on the same organizing principles that guided their own nation's Founding Fathers more than a century-and-a-half earlier. Led by war veterans, college students, and high schoolers, the Student Federalists quickly grew to include some 10,000 card-carrying members among almost three hundred campus and high school chapters. They became the most vibrant and intellectually challenging campus cause of their time, attracting an unprecedented array of distinguished adult speakers, and producing a wide variety of future leaders in academia, international aid and public affairs. This is the fascinating story, recounted by Gil Jonas, head of the NY Metropolitan Chapter of WFA, documents the rise and fall of a unique American student movement against the backdrop of cataclysmic world events.
List price is $23.95, our special price $22.00 (including shipping and handling), 280 pages, paperback. Published by iUniverse Inc., 2000.
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PlanetHood
By Benjamin B. Ferencz and Ken Keyes, Jr.
The human race today faces extinction. There's the fast way with nuclear war, or the slow way by environmental ruin of our planet. PlanetHood is unique. It explains how both problems can be solved by a single, practical solution, how to replace the law of force with the force of law, create prosperity, rescue our environment -- and give ourselves and our children a great future. "This is a do-it-yourself manual. The future of yourself and your family is too important to leave to anyone else. It's time to give up hoping others will do the job for you. You can make your life count as one of the Founding Mothers -- or Fathers -- of a new world system that ensures permanent peace and plenty on a sustainable Planet Earth."
$3.00 (including shipping and handling), 196 pages, paperback. Published by Loveline Books, 2nd ed. 1991.
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The Politics of World Federation
By Joseph P. Baratta
Volume I - United Nations, UN Reform, Atomic Control
This volume traces the influence of a generation of internationalists on policy, particularly on Winston Churchill's proposal of Anglo-French union of June 16, 1940 deliberations in the U.S. State Department on the shape of a postwar international security organization until October 1943, the Baruch plan of the international control of atomic energy in 1946, and early efforts at UN reform.
$79.95, 328 pages, hardcover, Praeger, 2004.
Volume II - From World Federalism to Global Governance
Baratta contends that the coming of the Cold War by 1947 was a principal explanation for the immediate failure of the world federalists. The historic opportunity for so fundamental an innovation in international relations as the establishment of even a limited world federation had passed, but for the next few years there was vigorous and deep political thinking about the continued prospect of war.
$79.95, 432 pages, hardcover. Published by Praeger, 2004.
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Survival Meetings
Highlights of The World Government Movement, 1947 To 1952 A Personal Journey
by Richard V. Carter
Many veterans came back from World War II determined to find a way to prevent another war. They and thousands of others around the world launched the world government movement, energized by two main themes: save the world from nuclear annihilation, and transform the United Nations from an assembly of independent sovereign nations into a true government of, by, and for the people. Gradually the former gave way to a more urgent cause: to help create a world community as a basis for democratic world governance.
In the end the movement did not realize its dream. The closest it came was the creation, by a stellar committee at the University of Chicago, of a Draft Constitution for the World, a document of international law and a challenge to the UN charter.
The effort made believers of teachers and preachers, businesspeople and politicians, and the most prominent atomic scientists who had created the nemesis of the bomb. And it made a responsible world citizen out of the author, a World Federalist living in Northern California. This is a very prejudiced account of a few of the people and events in this new search for world order.
$24.00 (including shipping and handling), 270 pages, paperback. Published by iUniverse, Inc., 2000.
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World Federation?
A Critical Analysis of Federal World Government
by Ronald J. Glossop
The pros and cons of a democratic federal world government are carefully reasoned here, as are the basic concepts of such a federation, and the relationship of law and government. The analysis of the author, who is currently VP of WFA, brings one to the conclusion that a global federation is inevitable despite the many obstacles.
"As is the case of the 'true believers' of any philosophy, many proponents of a world democratic government display an element of Utopianism. Serious thought gives way to sloganeering. Ronald Glossop is an exception. A dedicated World Federalist, Glossop demonstrates his devotion to the cause is the result of thorough analysis of all points of view, which he presents in this book with unusual fairness and accuracy. His work belongs in the library of every student of international relations, regardless of the reader's viewpoint.
It's an extremely well-balanced book. With a word change here or there, Chapter 5 could even be distributed by critics of world federalism - and it's unusual to run across that much understanding of one's critics, not to mention stating the positions of one's critics in a fair and thoughtful manner." -- Michael S. McGuire
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Toward Genuine Global Governance
A Critical Analysis of Federal World Government
Edited by Errol Harris and James Yunker
Nine well-known authors associated with the world federalist movement critique the 1995 Report of the Commission on Global Governance entitled Our Global Neighborhood . Although the contributors manifest a variety of viewpoints, styles, and approaches, they are unanimous in condemning the Report as insufficiently imaginative and visionary. Despite repeated calls in the Commission Report for a radically new way of thinking, the substance of the Report mindlessly rubber-stamps the legitimacy of the sovereign nation-state system of today, by means of summarily and peremptorily dismissing even the possibility of a supernational government qualitatively beyond the United Nations. According to the contributors, the concept of genuine world government is sufficiently advanced, and the circumstances of the present day are conducive, so that this concept is deserving of the most careful and serious attention by the general public and the political leadership. Despite their unconventional conclusions, these essays are lucid, judicious, and commanding.
Preface by James A. Yunker
A Planetary Paradigm for Global Government by Glen T. Martin
Liberalism at the Global Level by Richard Falk
Governance--An Opportunity? by John C. de V. Roberts
Global Governance Requires Global Government by Ronald J.
Glossop Global Government: Objections Considered by David Ray Griffin
Global Governance or World Government? by Errol E. Harris
A Critique of "Our Global Neighborhood" by Philip Isely
Reactions of an Ordinary World Citizen to "Our Global Neighborhood" by Jean-Marie Breton
A Pragmatic Route to Genuine Global Governance by James A. Yunker
Summary and Conclusion by Errol E. Harris
$93.95, 224 pages, hardcover. Published by Praeger Publishers, 1999.
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World Federalism, European Federalism, and International Democracy
A New History of Supranational Federalist Movements
By Jean-Francis Billion
In 1947 the World Federalist Movement was formed alongside the Union of European Federalists. This book looks at the different efforts of each group to achieve their goal of global democracy and their renewed cooperation in recent years. Jean-Francis Billion analyzes the significance of the emergence of the supranational point of view in contemporary history. He documents the evolution of the different approaches and the ups and downs of federalist movements, and identifies a long-term tendency toward convergence and even unification as a rational necessity and a historical tendency that has asserted itself over recent years.
Billion notes that the era of world wars represents the starting point not only for European unification, but also for world unification. The League of Nations, the UN, and the European Communities all represent attempts at an institutional response to the problems of international anarchy and war.
$15, 213 pages, soft cover. Published by World Federalist Association and Institute for Global Policy, 2001.
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Uniting the Peoples and Nations
Readings in World Federalism
Compiled by Barbara Walker
This unique collections of readings traces the growth of the idea of uniting the nations and peoples of the world from ancient times up to its present dayincarnation in the philosophy of world federalism. The book shows that the grail of human unity is not only a Western idea but one that has emerged on every continent. The book also shows that the core ideas of world federalists can be found in the speeches and publications of some remarkable people and institutions.
This book is meant to be neither exhaustive nor definitive. It is, however, a great sampler, offering up a selection of more than a hundred abridged readings that show the rich and widespread intellectual legacy of world federalism, and the robustness of the ideas in present times. It will open windows onto a world of thought that is steadily gaining influence in the mainstream of world politics.
$18, 364 pages, soft cover. Published by the World Federalist Movement, 1995.
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Revitalizing the United Nations
Reform Through Weighted Voting
By Joseph E. Shwartzberg
This book outlines one proposal for reform of the Security Council and General Assembly. The theory discussed in this book would depend on members' population, financial contribution to the UN budget and share of the total UN membership.
The argument is well-reasoned and thoroughly documented. If the UN is to be taken seriously as a policy-making body, the voting system in both the main bodies, the Security Council and the General Assembly, must be revised. In the Security Council veto power has been granted "in perpetuity" to five nations that happened in 1945 to be on the winning side of World War II, and two of them named in the UN Charter (the Republic of China and the Soviet Union) no longer even exist. In the General Assembly, each country has one vote regardless of its population...or economic influence. Only after a rational voting system has been established will the UN be transformed into a credible policymaking body for the world community.
The solution, Schwartzberg argues persuasively, is a weighted voting system that takes into account population (the democratic/demographic principle), contribution to the UN budget (the economic principle), and share of the total membership (the legal principle). Each country is assigned a weighted vote on the basis of these three factors.
Schwartzberg discusses the difficulty of effecting the changes he proposes. Still, he argues, the present situation resulting from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. requires that world leaders "come to grips with the new global realities." He pleads for action to reform the UN, either by adopting specific amendments to the Charter such as he is proposing or by holding a conference to review the Charter. The UN must be reformed so that it can "realize the dream that its creators set forth in the preamble to the Charter: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war . . ."
In addition to the wealth of information in the text, this monograph contains six appendices containing massive amounts of valuable data about the 191 member-states of the UN and how that information is related to the proposals for weighted voting. This is an invaluable booklet that all world federalists should have in their personal library.
$10 (including shipping and handling), 78 pages, soft cover. Published by the World Federalist Movement. Order from the Democratic World Federalists.
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Warlordism
On the Causes of War and a Vision of a Road to Peace
By Dr. James R. Adams, Ph.D.
There are historical accounts of aggressive war that offer no suggestion of how it can be prevented. There are peace plans and pleas which offer no evidence in support of their positions. Much peace activism is active only in protest -- it offers no alternatives to the status quo ante. This book puts in brief summary the fundamentals of the instigation of aggressive war. It leads to a rational conclusion, based on historical evidence, as to how war can be reduced and possibly, some day be eliminated. Even a cursory review of the history of war supports an interpretation that the tactics being employed for ending war are failing -- for clearly evident reasons. The organization of humanity into "sovereign," war-oriented nation-states creates a breeding ground for aggressive warlords. These warlords -- kings, emperors, dictators, religious terrorists -- have been and continue today to be the sources of military aggression. To end war, the incipient warlords must be de-fanged before they can strike. Peace does not keep itself. An in-place and functioning political structure, based on regional federations and with regional security organizations such as NATO, can permanently maintain peace within the regions.
A proposal, based primarily on the Global Action to Prevent War plan, is suggested as the best peace plan available to us today.
$15 (including shipping and handling), 200 pages, soft cover. Published by Author House, 2004. Order from the Democratic World Federalists.
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The Human Adventure
A Camera Chronicle
By Norman Cousins
From the camera of Norman Cousins, author of the bestseller Anatomy of an Illness and editor of Saturday Review, here are 76 photographs which document the breadth, beauty, and poignancy of the human being. This book is a camera chronicle of the human situation as observed in visits to five continents over a quarter-century. The camera, no less than a notebook, has been part of Norman Cousins' traveling kit on his journeys during the editorship of The Saturday Review and in his work as Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles. These photographs are more than a series of striking pictures; they are a visual narrative of human aspiration and challenge in the last half of the twentieth century. They also reflect Cousins' deep interest in everyday art forms.
$15 (including shipping and handling), 160 pages, hardcover. Published by Saybrook Publishing Company, 1986. Order from the Democratic World Federalists.
