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In the generation prior to Irwin Abram's (2001) second edition of The Nobel Peace Prize, the field of peace history has proliferated dramatically and has become ever more a comprehensive record of social reform, as well as a multi‐disciplinary approach using social mobilization analysis in innovative ways. The field has also become increasingly international, in terms or cooperative research across national boundaries, in its subject matter, and in its contribution to a global paradigm shift regarding war and peace.

Popular myth today associates the anti‐Vietnam War movement with radical New Left politics, counterculture, and student protest, if not also with violence. That those stereotypes originated from media coverage at the time is widely assumed, no doubt, but our images of the antiwar movement also were constructed and were reinforced by the historical literature written during and in the decade or so after the war. Since about 1988, however, writing in the field has broadened our understanding of the movement and has given it fresh nuances. The movement now seems to have had a broader, more diversified, more mainstream base than its stereotype would allow and to have persevered after the New Left disintegrated. There is still an agenda of research and writing in this field, and not least is to challenge the prevailing images of antiwar protest.

Popular myth today associates the anti-Vietnam War movement with radical New Left politics, counterculture, & student protest, if not also with violence. That those stereotypes originated from media coverage at the time is widely assumed, no doubt, but our images of the antiwar movement also were constructed & were reinforced by the historical literature written during & in the decade or so after the war. Since about 1988, however, writing in the field has broadened our understanding of the movement & has given it fresh nuances. The movement now seems to have had a broader, more diversified, more mainstream base than its stereotype would allow & to have persevered after the New Left disintegrated. There is still an agenda of research & writing in this field, & not least is to challenge the prevailing images of antiwar protest. Adapted from the source document.

The articles in this special section address quite distinct aspects of the history of world federalism that, taken together, point to federalism (beyond an ideal, ideology, or social movement) as a process. It was one of many transnational social movements that can be understood as players in global politics. In this sense the federalist movement participated in the process it idealized—the creation of world governance beyond states.