Category: Global Federalism

• The Great Reset of 1939

  The Great Reset of 1939 was the belief that the coming war decade would not merely reorder borders and alliances but abolish the nation-state itself and culminate in some form of world republic. The label is retrospective, but the underlying fear was real enough in the late 1930s, when world-federalist proposals, League disillusionment, and new plans for transnational political union were circulating openly. In the strongest version of the theory, war was the mechanism by which sovereignty would be burned away and replaced with a central global authority. The conspiracy interpretation treated world-federalist thought not as peace advocacy but as advance planning for the end of nations.