A submission by Federal Union to the Department of Trade and Industry, 2 January 2003 1. This submission falls into four parts. First, what is Federal Union? Secondly, why we […]
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By Richard Laming Notes for “Federalism and the global challenges”, Ventotene, 4 September 2002 What do federalists think of globalisation? What is globalisation? It is people and organisations doing things
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An axiom of world federalism is that decisions should be made locally, as close as possible to the people, and reserved upwards to a higher authority only if that is
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By William Greider The promise of Seattle was captured in an antic moment observed by one young environmental activist. Amid broad ranks of protesters, he saw that a squad of
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By Laura Davis Slobodan Milosevic’s transfer from his Belgrade prison to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on 28 June 2001 was headline news: he would be the
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By Geoffrey Robertson QC The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of 11 September was to demand ‘justice’, although that word sounded, in many powerful
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By Richard Laming The military action in Afghanistan has no end in sight. The world still awaits a clear definition of what the war is for. It is clear that
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By Keith Best Speech by Keith Best, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Federalist Movement (WFM), at the closing plenary of the XIX European Congress of the Union
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By John Williams Review of: The tragedy of great power politics, John Mearsheimer. Published by W.W.Norton, 2001 Does America need a foreign policy? toward a diplomacy for the twenty-first century.
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By Guido Montani In the Fall 2000 issue of World Federalist News, in an article on the World Federalist Movement’s programme (Tobin Tax Campaigns Take Off?), it is argued that
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