Publications

There is an enormous literature on European and world federalism and related topics. An up-to-date review of recent books in this area may be found at the Citizens for Global Solutions website, edited by Ron Glossop. A recent publication by Leinen and Bummel listed below gives a detailed and up-to-date account of the world federalist movement in general, and the campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly in particular. A longer list of books and articles which may be of interest can be found at the WCAA website.

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A few of the many books discussing these ideas include:

 

H.G. Wells, 'The Shape of Things to Come' (Corgi, London, 1974)

Clarence K. Streit, 'Union Now' (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1939)

Wendell L. Willkie, 'One World' (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1943)

Emery Reves, 'The Anatomy of Peace' (Harper, New York, 1945)

Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, 'World Peace through World Law' (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1966)

R.W.G. Mackay, 'Towards a United States of Europe' (Hutchinson, 1968)

J.P. Baratta, 'Strengthening the United Nations: A Bibliography on U.N. Reform and World Federalism' (Greenwood, Westport, 1987)

Jo Leinen and Andreas Bummel, 'A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the     21st Century' (Democracy Without Borders, Berlin, 2018)

 

World Order Models Project (WOMP)

S. Mendlowitz (ed.), 'On the Creation of a Just World Order: Preferred Worlds for the 1990s' (Free Press, New York, 1975)

Johan Galtung, 'The True Worlds' (Free Press, New York, 1980)

Richard Falk, 'A Study of Future Worlds' (Free Press, New York, 1982)

R.A. Falk, S.S. Kim and S.H. Mendlovitz (eds.), 'Towards a Just World Order' (Westview Press, Boulder, 1982)

 

K. Suter, 'A New International Order’ (WAWF, 1981)

J. Baratta, 'The International History of the World Federalist Movement' (Peace and Change 14, 372 (1989)

Francis Fukuyama, 'The End of History and the Last Man' (Penguin, 1992)

R. Glossop,‘World Federation? A Critical Analysis of Federal World

            Government' (McFarland & Co., 1993)

D. Held, 'Democracy and the Global Order' (Polity Press, 1995)

S.P. Huntington, 'The Clash of Civilizations' (Simon & Schuster, 1996).

C. Hamer, 'A Global Parliament: Principles of World Federation' (amazon.com, 1998)

R. Falk and A. Strauss, 'A Global Parliament: Essays and Articles' (amazon.com, 2011)

 

History of the Nuclear Disarmament Movement

L.S. Wittner,

• 'One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement through 1953' (Stanford UP, 1993);

• 'Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmamemt Movement 1954-1970' (Stanford UP, 1999);

• 'Toward Nuclear Abolition: A history of the World Disarmament Movement: 1971-Present' (Stanford UP, 2003)

L.S. Wittner, 'Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear

            Disarmament Movement' (Stanford UP, 2009)