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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
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.
LCC Class: 341
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