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Learn more about the history of the World Federalists’ movement by reading the books on our list. The book list was developed over decades after many brilliant world federalists added their book choices to the list.

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As we read all the books in our library we also try and write book reviews to help you figure out if the book is for you or not. Most of our book reviews will be produced by our organizational membership.

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The World Federalists Booklist

These are just some titles focused on world federalism that we have collected over the years. If you want to buy one or more of the books below, please us our “BUY HERE” link because some of the proceeds of your purchase will go to our organization. This means that you learn, help the movement and producers of the works. The goal of the book list is to educate the public on the history and philosophy of World Federalism.

One World Democracy

In One World Democracy, authors Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitsos describe the only known long-term solution to the urgent global problems that threaten the survival of humankind: democratic world government and the rule of law at the global level—a federation of all nations. This book provides the definitive overview for our time of how humanity can replace the United Nations with a genuine world democracy. In this future world democracy, the executive branch will be strictly limited by a separation of powers—world courts, a global bill of rights, and a world…

A World Parliament

More than at any time in history, all the people in the world are linked together in a shared civilization, encompassing the entire planet. Their multiple interconnections generate mutual dependencies and affinities. Humanity now has a common destiny. Global challenges such as war, poverty, inequality, climate change and environmental destruction are overwhelming nation-states and today’s international institutions. Doing the right thing requires more than having the right policies; it requires having the right political structures to implement them…

Transforming the UN System

Global problems require global solutions. However, the United Nations, as presently constituted, is incapable of addressing many global problems effectively. One nation–one vote decision-making in most UN agencies fails to reflect the distribution of power in the world at large, while the allocation of power in the Security Council is both unfair and anachronistic. Hence, nations are reluctant to endow the UN with the authority and the resources it needs. This book is rooted in the proposition that the design of decision-making systems greatly affects their legitimacy and effectiveness…

Constitution of Earth

The Constitution was developed by a drafting committee of 25 persons with feedback from hundreds of world citizens over a period of 33 years from 1968 to 1991. This compact edition contains the complete Constitution, together with an informative new introduction by Glen T. Martin, President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association.

One Shining Moment

During the darkest hours of World War II, a Scarsdale, NY, high school student experienced a “vision” of the possibilities of a peaceful postwar world. From this mystical moment came the most powerful American student movement of the postwar decade the Student Federalistswho pressed their elders and their contemporaries to consider the establishment of a world government based on the same principles which guided our nation’s Founding Fathers more than a century-and-a-half earlier. Damned by the fanatics of the extreme right, and of the extreme left…

The Ventotene Manifesto

The Ventotene Manifesto officially entitled For a Free and United Europe. A Draft Manifesto is a political statement written by Altiero Spinelli while he was imprisoned on the Italian island of Ventotene during World War II. Completed in June 1941, the Manifesto was circulated within the Italian Resistance, and it soon became the program of the Movimento Federalista Europeo. The Manifesto called for a federation of Europe and the world. In the text, European Federalism and World Federalism are presented as a way to prevent future wars. Spinelli (1907–86), a former Communist, became a leader of the federalist movement due to his primary authorship of the Manifesto and his postwar advocacy. The manifesto called for a break with Europe’s past to form a new political system through a restructuring of politics and extensive social reform. It was presented not as an ideal, but as the best option for Europe’s postwar condition.

The Anatomy of Peace

The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves, first published in 1945, is a book that expressed the world federalist sentiments shared by Albert Einstein and many others in the late 1940s, in the period immediately following World War II. Reves argued that world law was the only way to prevent war, and the fledgling United Nations Security Council would be inadequate to preserve peace because it was an instrument of power, rather than an instrument of law.

Planethood

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. PlanetHood tells 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.

World Peace Thru World Law

The authors’ plans for the maintenance of world peace calls for total national disarmament by stages under strict inspection and the establishment of such legislative, executive and judicial institutions as are necessary to maintain world order. To this new edition, which takes into account the views expressed by many distinguished persons throughout the world, a proposed treaty for establishing a World Disarmament and World Development Organization has been added.

The World And Africa

Against a background of the vast contributions of ancient and modern Africa to world culture, peace and industry, Dr. Du Bois documents the historic injustices of the rape of Africa from the slave trade to its partition by the colonial powers. The articles and essays on the emerging new nations and personalities of Africa, written by Dr. Du Bois from 1955-1961, have been added to the original manuscript.

Guide to World Peace

This book is fifteen years of intensive study crystallized into a unique and integrated overview of what must be done to create a peaceful world. This realistic book is filled with knowledge, hope, and inspiration.

Globalizar La Democracia

The last decades have shown the progressive impotence of national states and international organizations to provide rational and democratic responses in a world where distances are shortened, time is accelerating, borders are falling and global crises increasingly require global solutions.
This is the proposal to Globalize Democracy. For a World Parliament: a new model of globalization capable of overcoming nihilism disguised as a critical attitude, and in which the globalization of Democracy and the creation of a World Parliament are the central paradigms. 

Silent Spring

Vice President Al Gore in the Introduction to this book states that: Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and brilliantly written argument that changed the course of history. Without this book, the global environmental (climate justice) movement might have been long delayed or never have developed at all.

Autobiography: Malcolm X

When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket. Civil rights means you’re asking Uncle Sam to treat you right. Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth. And any time anyone violates your human rights, you can take them to the world court. 

Eyes off the Prize

As World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horror wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, African American leaders, led by the NAACP, sensed the opportunity to launch an offensive against the conditions of segregation and inequality in the United States.The “prize” they sought was not civil rights, it was human rights.Only the human rights lexicon, shaped by the Holocaust and articulated by the United Nations, contained the language and the moral power to address not only the political and legal inequality, but also the education, health care, housing, and employment needs that haunted the black community.

Video archive

Over the years, the World Federalism Movement has created a lot of content which we at the Democratic World Federalists use to educate the public about the history of world federalism. We will also connect you to the DWF Network and other DWF media. There you can learn about current and historical events along with things we are working on as an organization. The Vault will be the place where we will be uploading all of our own video archives. If you have video that you would like to provide please email us at dwf_comm@dwfed.org and tell us your name, contact number or email, and write a detailed message on what the video is about and how you would like to get the content to us.

Book Reviews

Our book reviews will be featured in the DWF News and DWF Network YouTube Channel. If you would like to learn about the new books we are adding to the list or when we will be putting out a review, then subscribe to our YouTube channel, follow us on social media, and subscribe to our email list. When you become a member you can share some of your ideas about books with the board.

DWF News Reviews

Our reviews are written and produced by the members of our staff and board. We have a huge library of close to one hundred books, so we will be doing a lot of reading to get the book reviews out. If you would like to submit a book review, please email us at dwf_comm@dwfed.org. Please don’t plagiarize because if you do so then you will be liable for using someone else’s work.

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