How would individual countries even take the leap to World Federation?
Much thought has been put into this and there are several possible means: * add a parliamentary assembly to the U.N. and gradually strengthen its capabilities; * start a federation of (the stronger, more stable) democratic countries and add additional ones as they mature politically; * develop a “Global Peoples’ Assembly” and a World Constitution; * develop a system of functional institutions and treaties that assign power to solve global problems at a level higher than the nation-state, and * develop regional federations such as the European Union, the African Union etc. and federate them in due course.
