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  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    Subsection 3.Federalist authors, personalities and organizations
    Petricioli Marta, Cherubini Donatella (eds.)
    Les Etats-Unis d'Europe. Un Projet Pacifiste. The United States of Europe. A Pacifist Project
    Ed. Peter Lang , Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien , 2003
    Page XIV-447
    ISBN 978-3-906770-84-0
    The expansion of Europe marks the end of a process begun in 1867 by the League of Peace and Freedom, a European republican federation with a shared Constitution as a deterrent against internal conflicts, but which also set out to be a guarantor of world peace. This was the pacifist project advocated in Les Etats-Unis d'Europe, the journal of the League published in Switzerland with a name inspired by Victor Hugo. Its objective was to spread the idea throughout European civil society that the union of all European states could prevent war and promote economic prosperity. This volume is the result of the international collaboration of twenty scholars and covers the journal's alternating fortunes until the period following World War I. The essays trace its Saint-Simonian origins, analyse the proposals it advanced to solve international crises and the instruments for settling disputes (mainly arbitration), and place its contribution in the context of world pacifism between the 19th and 20th centuries. While the outbreak of World Wars represented a serious setback, the federalist commitment of Les Etats-Unis d'Europe undoubtedly played a fundamental role and sowed the seeds of contemporary Europeanism.
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