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Welcome. World Federalist Movement. The World Federalist Movement (WFM) is a global citizens movement with member and associate organizations around the world.

World Federalist Movement

The WFM International Secretariat is based in New York City across from the United Nations headquarters. Category:World federalists. World federalists are advocates of democratic federal world government.

Category:World federalists

Many of them are associated with the World Federalist Movement or its member organizations. World federalism's popularity peaked in the years immediately following World War II. The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more). World Citizen... / - World Government of World Citizen - Welcome. Category: World government.

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Globalization. One World Trust. Common heritage of mankind. Common heritage of mankind (also termed the common heritage of humanity, common heritage of humankind or common heritage principle) is a principle of international law which holds that defined territorial areas and elements of humanity's common heritage (cultural and natural) should be held in trust for future generations and be protected from exploitation by individual nation states or corporations.

Common heritage of mankind

Origins[edit] Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World. ReformtheUN.org. United nations. The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation.

United nations

A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The UN Headquarters is situated in Manhattan, New York City and enjoys extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. During the Second World War, US President Franklin D.

Neutral territory. The neutral zone separating the Spanish town of Ceuta from Morocco When it is a delimited zone bordering at least one of the partners, the term neutral zone applies.

Neutral territory

This had been the case in the past for: In many cases, a neutral zone is also a demilitarized zone. No One's World: Charles A. Kupchan. The world is on the cusp of a global turn.

No One's World: Charles A. Kupchan

Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle East. Europe and the United States have dominated the world since. But today the West's preeminence is slipping away as China, India, Brazil and other emerging powers rise. No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn. Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm Charles Kupchan predicts the twenty-first century will not belong to America, China, Asia, or anyone else...

No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn

Although most strategists recognize that the dominance of the West is on the wane, they are confident that its founding ideas—democracy, capitalism, and secular nationalism—will continue to spread, ensuring that the Western order will outlast its primacy. In No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn, Charles Kupchan challenges this view, arguing that the world is headed for political and ideological diversity; he believes the ascent of the West was the product of social and economic conditions unique to Europe and the United States.

Terra nullius. Terra nullius (/ˈtɛrə nʌˈlaɪ.əs/, plural terrae nullius) is a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning "land belonging to no one",[1] which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished sovereignty.

Terra nullius

Sovereignty over territory which is terra nullius may be acquired through occupation,[2] though in some cases doing so would violate an international law or treaty. History in Australia[edit] European settlement of Australia commenced in 1788. Prior to this, Indigenous Australians inhabited the continent and had unwritten laws, as documented in the case of the Yirrkala community.

Terra nullius. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Terra nullius

Terra nullius est une locution latine signifiant « territoire sans maître ». C'est un espace qui peut être habité, mais qui ne relève pas d'un État. Archibugi, D.: The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy. The Global Commonwealth of Citizens critically examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization.

Archibugi, D.: The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy.

Arising after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the decisive affirmation of Western-style democracy, cosmopolitan democracy envisions a world politics in which democratic participation by citizens is not constrained by national borders, and where democracy spreads through dialogue and incentives, not coercion and war. This is an incisive and thought-provoking book by one of the world's leading proponents of cosmopolitan democracy. Daniele Archibugi looks at all aspects of cosmopolitan democracy in theory and practice. Is democracy beyond nation-states feasible? Is it possible to inform global governance with democratic norms and values, and if so, how?

Review: "Archibugi outlines his cosmopolitan project in a simple and readable style. More reviews. Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Russell Tribunal. The nine-year-old boy DoVan Ngoc exhibits terrible injuries from napalm in Vietnam. The Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal or Russell-Sartre Tribunal, was a private body organized by British philosopher Bertrand Russell and hosted by French philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre. Along with Ken Coates, Ralph Schoenman, Julio Cortázar and several others, the tribunal investigated and evaluated American foreign policy and military intervention in Vietnam, following the 1954 defeat of French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and the establishment of North and South Vietnam.

L'invention de la mondialisation. Patrick Boucheron est maître de conférences en histoire médiévale à l’université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Spécialiste des cultures urbaines et artistiques de l’Italie des XIVe et XVe siècles, il vient de diriger, en collaboration avec Julien Loiseau, Pierre Monnet et Yann Potin, un ouvrage intitulé Histoire du monde au XVe siècle (Fayard, 2009).

Près de soixante-dix historiens ont participé à cette aventure collective, qui propose un parcours ambitieux à travers les lieux et les temps de la mondialisation au XVe siècle, de la mort de Tamerlan en 1405 au couronnement de Charles Quint en 1520. Cet ouvrage s’inspire notamment des acquis de la world history et de l’histoire connectée. Sommaire des questions : Peut-on parler de mondialisation au XVe siècle ?

Peut-on parler de mondialisation au XVe siècle ? Si cette vidéo ne marche pas malgré la présence de Flash ou que vous ne pouvez pas installer Flash (par exemple sur mobile), vous pouvez la voir directement sur Dailymotion. Action parlementaire globale. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Action parlementaire globale (en anglais Parliamentarians for Global Action ou PGA) est une organisation apolitique à but non lucratif qui rassemble 1350 législateurs librement élus de 118 pays démocratiques. Elle a été fondée en 1979 à Washington sous le nom de Action parlementaire pour l'ordre mondial (en anglais Parliamentarians for World Order) et s'est engagée dans un ensemble d'initiatives concrètes visant à promouvoir la démocratie, la paix, la justice ou encore le développement durable dans le monde entier.

Cosmopolitan democracy. Cosmopolitan democracy is a political theory which explores the application of norms and values of democracy at different levels, from global to local. It is about what global governance of the people, by the people, for the people can mean. The academic advocates of cosmopolitan democracy include David Held,[1] [2] Daniele Archibugi,[3] Richard Falk,[4] and Mary Kaldor.[5] In the Cosmopolitan Democracy model, decisions are made by those citizens that are affected by them, avoiding a single hierarchical form of authority. La démondialisation, un concept superficiel et simpliste. Parliamentarians for Global Action. Vers une mondialisation démocratique. Daniele Archibugi milite depuis plus de quinze ans en faveur d’une démocratisation mondialisée, ou d’une mondialisation démocratisée. Réfractaire au dogme de la souveraineté, il se fie au constitutionalisme, à mi-chemin des politiques dites réalistes et des utopies, et prend au sérieux l’hypothèse d’un parlement mondial.

Un essai stimulant. Recensé : Daniele Archibugi, La démocratie cosmopolitique. Sur la voie d’une démocratie mondiale, traduction et présentation par L.