World Citizen Book Club
The World Citizen Book Club is the longest-running program at Citizens for Global Solutions. We meet on the second Saturday of every month for ninety-minute discussions, working through one book across two to five sessions depending on its length and complexity. Authors regularly join us for live Q&A, so readers get to question the people doing the work, not just react to the page.
The reading list is built around the questions that have shaped world federalist thinking for decades:
World Citizenship;
Abolishing war;
Enforceable world law;
Protecting human rights;
Restoring and sustaining our global environment.
Sessions are open to anyone. Members and first-time guests participate side by side, and most discussions move quickly past summary into the harder work of testing arguments, comparing models of governance, and connecting older proposals to the openings in front of us now. If you have read a few pages or none at all, you are welcome to listen, ask, and contribute.
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Past Book Clubs
Browse previous readings and watch session recordings.
Building a Just World Order
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Session 1 Chapters 1 - 3Sat, Apr 11, 2026 -
Session 2 Chapters 4 - 5Sat, Jun 6, 2026
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Session 3 Chapters 6 - 7Sat, Jun 27, 2026
A Second UN Charter: Modernizing the UN for a New Generation
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Session 1Sat, Feb 14, 2026
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Session 2Sat, Mar 14, 2026
The Future in the Past
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Session 1Sat, Sep 6, 2025
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Session 2Sat, Oct 11, 2025
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Session 3Sat, Nov 8, 2025
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Session 4Sat, Dec 13, 2025
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Session 5Sat, Jan 10, 2026
The Humble Cosmopolitan: Rights, Diversity, and Trans-state Democracy
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Session 1Sat, Jun 28, 2025
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Session 2Sat, Jul 26, 2025
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Session 3Sat, Aug 23, 2025
World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century
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Session 1Sat, Mar 29, 2025
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Session 2Sat, Apr 12, 2025
Mondial Journal (Winter 2025)
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Sat, Mar 1, 2025
Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes
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Session 1Sat, Jan 18, 2025
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Session 2Sun, Feb 9, 2025
Abolishing War
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Session 1Sat, Nov 2, 2024
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Session 2Sat, Dec 14, 2024
The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World
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Session 1Sat, Sep 14, 2024
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Session 2Sat, Oct 12, 2024
Unraveled: A Personal Journey into Conflict, War, and Diplomacy
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Session 1Sat, Jul 13, 2024
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Session 2Sat, Aug 10, 2024
Keep Hope Alive: Essays for a War-Free World
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Session 1Sat, Mar 9, 2024
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Session 2Sat, Apr 13, 2024
Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World
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Session 1Sat, Sep 9, 2023
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Session 2Sat, Oct 14, 2023
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Session 3Sat, Nov 11, 2023
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Session 4Sat, Dec 9, 2023
Global Governance & the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
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Session 1 Part 1: Ch. 1–3 (pp. 1–78)Sat, Feb 11, 2023
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Session 2 Part 2: Ch. 4–8 (pp. 81–180)Sat, Mar 11, 2023
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Session 3 Part 2: Ch. 9–12 (pp. 181–290)Sat, Apr 8, 2023
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Session 4 UN Agencies, IMF, Environment, MigrationSat, May 13, 2023
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Session 5 Final Q&A with the authorsSat, Jun 10, 2023
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Session 6 Follow-up strategy sessionSat, Jul 8, 2023
Union Now
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Session 1Sat, Sep 10, 2022
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Session 2Sat, Oct 8, 2022
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Session 3Sat, Dec 10, 2022
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Session 4Sat, Jan 14, 2023
My Country is the World
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Session 1Sat, Oct 10, 2020
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Session 2Sat, Nov 14, 2020
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Session 3Sat, Dec 12, 2020
World Federation
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Session 1Sat, Apr 11, 2020
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Session 2Sat, May 9, 2020
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Session 3Sat, Jun 13, 2020
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Session 4Sat, Jul 11, 2020
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Session 5Sat, Aug 8, 2020
The Idea of World Government
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Sat, Jan 11, 2020
Building a World Federation
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Wed, Sep 4, 2019
Planethood
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Session 1Sat, Jun 8, 2019
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Session 2Sat, Jul 13, 2019