It is in the context of these ongoing developments in international affairs that Joseph Baratta’s work on The Politics of World Federalism has newly arrived.  It is not only enormously useful as an historical approach to the efforts to reach the goal of a world where world law has replaced the use of warfare as a means of maintaining peace and stability.  His explanation of the role of politics in laying the necessary foundation for such a revolutionary transformation in both thought and action helps to close the gap between vision and reality that so often pervades discussions in this area of human affairs.

As the historian of a non-governmental organization which has been in existence during most of the period that furnishes the material for the author’s research, I am most impressed by his selection of materials that are relevant to his search for the truth about world government.  He successfully challenges the notion that a mere aggregation in whatever form of purely sovereign nation states should be the limits of our horizon in the continuing search for peace and justice.  World peace through world law should be our ultimate political goal.  His book, I believe and more than that—hope and pray—brings us another step farther along the road toward that goal.

—John Anderson, Independent Candidate for U.S. President in 1980