Associate Professor Joseph P. Baratta

I am a historian of the world federalist movement and of efforts to strengthen the United Nations. I was classically educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, where we read the great books as our texts.  That form of liberal education still influences my teaching.  I received my Ph.D. in history from Boston University in 1982 with a dissertation on the origins of the world government movement, 1937-1947. I directed the U.N. office of the World Federalists in 1985-88.

My publications include:

The Politics of World Federation.
Vol.1: The United Nations, U.N. Reform, Atomic Control.
Vol. 2: From World Federalism to Global Governance (Praeger, 2004);

For the text of the introduction to this new book, please see:

http://web.mac.com/JosephBaratta

The United Nations System: Meeting the World Constitutional Crisis (Oxford: ABC-Clio, 1995);

Monographs funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace on international verification, peacekeeping, arbitration, and human rights; articles on the Baruch plan, Grenville Clark, the Kellogg-Briand pact, and  "Toward Global Governance," Peace and Change (July, 1999): 340-72.

I have served in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a ranch hand, carpenter, mason, electronics technician, technical writer,  computer programmer, and peace activist. I teach history and international relations at Worcester State College.