The Politics of World Federation [Two Volumes]

Subjects:

• History » World History (General)
• Political Science » International Relations
• Political Science » Political Philosophy

Reviews:

• It is interesting to note that the Second World War did not provoke the same upsurge of peace thinking that followed the end of the First World War. The value of this book is that it reminds us that optimistic thinking about global political reform did not disappear completely....Skeptics are unlikely to be persuaded by this book that world federation is a practical option, but it is an useful addition to the literature on the history of peace thinking. It also contains an extensive guide to archives and collections on world federalist thinking that should be of enormous assistance to researchers.
  —The Historian .

Table of Contents:

• Volume 1: The United Nations, U.N. Reform, Atomic Control
• Preface
• Foreword by John Anderson
• Introduction to Both Volumes
• 1. Precursors from Dante to Wilson
• 2. Clarence Streit: Federal Union of Democracies
• 3. Winston Churchill's Offer of Anglo-French Union
• 4. U.S. State Department Planning for the United Nations Organization
• 5. World Federalists' Response to the U.N.
• 6. A New Age: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Illustrations
• 7. The Atomic Scientists' Movement
• 8. Grenville Clark: U.N. Reform
• 9. Henry Usborne: The Peoples' Convention
• 10. The Baruch Plan for the International Control of Atomic Energy
• 11. U.N. Reform as the Baruch Plan Failed
• 12. Formation of United World Federalists (UWF)
• 13. The Truman Doctrine: Containment
• Conclusion to Volume 1
• Appendix A Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Appendix B Historic Federal Unions
• Appendix C Clauses in National Constitutions Limiting Sovereignty
• Appendix D Archives and Collections
• Appendix E Interviews
• Index to Volume 1
• Volume 2: From World Federalism to Global Governance
• Introduction to Volume 2
• 14. Albert Einstein on World Government
• 15. Robert M. Hutchins: Framing a World Constitution
• 16. The Crusade and the World Movement
• 17. Cord Meyer: Mainstream World Federalism
• 18. The Foundation for World Government
• 19. Garry Davis: World Citizen in France
• 20. Henry Wallace's Challenge in the Election of 1948
• Illustrations
• 21. What about Russia?
• 22. World Federalism in the States
• 23. Climax of U.S. House and Senate Hearings
• 24. The Korean War and the Decline of the Federalist Movement
• 25. World Federalists in the Cold War
• Conclusion to Both Volumes: Global Governance
• Appendix F World Federalist Declarations
• Appendix G State Resolutions
• Appendix H U.S. Congressional Resolutions
• Appendix I Federalist Journals
• Appendix J Annotated Bibliography
• Index to Volume 2