The Politics of World Federation

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The Politics of World Federation [Two Volumes]

Joseph Preston Baratta

ISBN: 0-275-98066-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98066-5

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700 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2004

List Price: $165.00 (UK Sterling Price: £113.95)

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Description: Volume I 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 for the international control of atomic energy in l946, and early efforts at UN reform. Volume 2 recounts the history and practical politics of creating a world in which the rule of law maintains the peace in the same way as in well-organized free national states. The coming of the Cold War by 1947 is the 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 a vigorous and deep political thinking about the continued prospect of war. Work toward this goal continued, and eventually the United World Federalists built up enough of a popular movement to pass resolutions favoring U.S. participation in 22 states.

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

About the Author: is Associate Professor of History at Worcester State College.

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