International relations

"In today's world, a study of international relations is the introduction to art and science, of the survival of humanity."
— Karl W. Deutsch

The world population is increasing by 200 thousand people a day: a real demographic bomb. Crime and violence are increasing hand in hand. In the United States, over $30 trillion is spent on cocaine and heroin. With this figure, anemia in Indian children could be fought with iron-based dietary supplementation. There are 800 million people, from one hemisphere to the other, who suffer from hunger. And that's not all, because malnutrition affects a much larger number of people: over 2 billion. In the Horn of Africa, the heart of despair, 80% of the population suffers from serious diseases related to malnutrition. Children are prone to hair loss, baldness, loss of nails and sometimes even the first layer of skin. The world is full of hungry people, because resources are badly distributed.

What happens in the "distant lands" affects us more and more, now the world is a global village as Marshall McLuhan suggested. International relations is a branch of political science that studies the relationships between national political units, and which define the international policy of each state or people.

West Antarctic's Vision

The Government of West Antarctic in the field of international relations is looking for new actors and aims to develop bilateral relations not only with States but also with peoples and nations not represented by the United Nations. We do not define ourselves as aligned, we are not aligned, we are in favor of a global policy based on the Charter of Human Rights.

Our foreign policy is not based on relations of convenience or balance, but on real commercial, economic, cultural exchanges and on the general and ethical principles of Human Rights, without distinction of ethnicity, culture, religion, or political belief.

International relations are like a dance and it takes at least two of us. The Government of the Southern Lands proposes itself as a partner of all countries, nations, and peoples that share the basic principles established by our Constitution: the Principality of West Antarctic and the other Member States aim to promote justice, freedoms, equality between peoples, international security, preserving the environment throughout the earth and space.

Ten Basic Principles

To guarantee coexistence between peoples, and an economic, social and equitable order, we uphold the following principles:

  • Protect the citizens of West Antarctic, human rights, their cultures, traditions, languages, and institutions;
  • Promote progress, culture, and economy to ensure a decent quality of life for all citizens;
  • Collaborate for the strengthening of peaceful relations and fruitful cooperation among all the peoples of the earth;
  • Promote effective actions for the protection and preservation of the planet's environment, cooperating in a spirit of solidarity for the conservation, protection, and integrity of the Antarctic environment;
  • Promote pluralist and democratic principles, repudiating any form of totalitarianism and imperialism;
  • Defend the equality of all nations and populations, their inalienable right to self-determination;
  • Condemn any manifestation of religious, cultural, ethnic, and political intolerance;
  • Repudiate terrorism and war as an instrument for the affirmation of one's own ideology, for the subjugation of other peoples;
  • Serve as a model for a new eco-sustainable state with 3.5% taxes.

Challenges in International Relations

Unfortunately, international relations have increasingly been used by states as a game and to put pressure on them to obtain goals and benefits that are often exclusively economic. The outcome of the "game" is conditioned by the influence or economic or military power of the players. At the end of the nineteenth century, the system of bilateral diplomacy (between two nations or states) was supplanted by multilateral diplomacy (between various nations or states), creating power games from which the weakest or least powerful are excluded.

Thanks to this new system, the decisions that weigh on all of humanity today are taken by a dozen countries (the "superpowers"). How to overturn this system? It is a difficult task, perhaps impossible, but any attempt to subvert this new world order is useful and can bring great benefits to humanity. For this reason, international bodies that are alternatives to the discrepancies of the United Nations, such as the World Parliament for Security and Peace, are of the utmost importance.

International Law and Human Rights

International law should be a set of rules governing relations between states. But what if these rules favor the few to overwhelm the majority? And what to do when the "powerful" do not comply with treaties in contrast with the pacta sunt servando rule, which specifies that treaties must be observed? Despite an apparent effort to ensure that States observe minimum standards of justice in respect of human rights, these are violated with impunity, precisely by the great powers.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed in Paris on December 10, 1948, is often disregarded by some non-democratic member states of the UN. The declaration consists of a preamble and 30 articles that enshrine individual, civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of every person.

Promoting Global Development

Economic development is the only factor that can close the chasm between rich and poor countries. The State of Antarcticland proposes strategic alliances to develop policies and relationships that promote investment in the poorest and developing countries, through the signing of treaties of friendship that offer guarantees to the investments of the citizens of West Antarctic.

At the international level, the Government of West Antarctic will promote policies aimed at solving the political and social problems related to the demographic growth of developing countries, which are about 92 million people a year. Activities will include education, family planning, rationalization of agriculture, and addressing environmental issues through a new protocol.