Joseph Preston Baratta is professor emeritus at Worcester State University.  He is a historian of the world federalist movement and of efforts to strengthen the United Nations.  He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam era.  He was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, and received his Ph.D. in history from Boston University in l982. He worked in the United Nations community in New York in 1985-88, directing the U.N. office of the World Federalists.  His publications include: The Politics of World Federation: Vol. 1, United Nations, U.N. Reform, Atomic Control, and Vol. 2, From World Federalism to Global Governance (Praeger, 2004).  Prof. Baratta taught international relations, globalization, the promise of the United Nations, world history, American and English history, and history of science and technology at Worcester State University.