Lucio Levi is professor of political science and comparative politics at the University of Torino in Italy, and a member of the board of directors of the Centre for Studies on Federalism (Torino) and editor of The Federalist Debate. He is an active member of the World Federalist Movement and the Union of European Federalists. He has authored books on federalism, European integration and international organizations, among which are L'internationalisme ne suffit pas: Internationalisme marxiste et fédéralisme, (1984; all-French text) and Altiero Spinelli and Federalism in Europe and the World (1990; all-English text).

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 The Federalist and the Constitution of the United States of AmericaPart 3 Kant, World Federation, Perpetual Peace, and Human EmancipationPart 4 The Federalist Component of the French RevolutionPart 5 Federalism and the Criticism of the Limits of the National State in the 1800sPart 6 The First World War, the Crisis of the National State, and the Problem of European UnityPart 7 English Constitutional Federalism and the Crisis of the European System of States between the World WarsPart 8 The Rise of the Theoretical Autonomy of Federalism after the Second World WarPart 9 Bibliography

Professor Lucio Levi has for over 40 years been a leading scholar on developing the European Union into a full federation. He is a leader in the Center for the Study of Federalism at the University of Turin and writes the lead essay in every issue of its journal, The Federalist Debate. In...Federalist Thinking, he goes beyond Alexander Hamilton and Immanuel Kant to critically survey the full range of federalist thinking in order to contribute to the constitutional debate on Europe and even reform of the United Nations.