International System

This term, in the context we use it, refers to how countries, non-state actors, and other significant actors relate to each other. The main element of this system is an acutely chaotic nature that relies on no regulatory body to govern, analyze, contain, or direct the interaction of the units that make up the international system.

This chaotic nature can be used to explain why wars and conflicts arise. Many schools of theory have led us to believe that human nature is the reason for power struggles, conflicts of interest, and ignorance that have resulted in barbaric atrocities. But the Directive and Neoism see this differently. Human nature is entirely subjective, there’s no one who can claim to know the nature of humanity, rather, it is the way that humans collectively organize themselves that’s the problem.

Picture a rebirth, where all we have come to preconceive about the way humans organize themselves is cleansed from relevance, and we are presented with a choice. Would we really choose, in this day and age, a system of competing tribes each vying with one and other for power and superiority? Or would we seek out a different system? Perhaps one that facilitates the current state of the human condition. There are indeed many options, many possibilities, but we are narrowed into thinking in terms of the concrete and literal definition of this system of stagnation and chaos.

Nation-states are swiftly becoming the past. Their dominance of the international system is fading, as populations become governments onto themselves; wise enough to rule in their own interests and the ones of their community. Naturally, this is far from happening within our life-times and anyone who preaches this as an idea to look forward to in the near future will be duly disappointed. We cannot convince nor coerce such historic entities to go utterly extinct because nations are essential local units that administer and give direction to populations that share certain characteristics. However, we cannot let the spiteful, convoluted, and often violent interaction of nation-states determine the collective destiny of humanity, that is, our species and its well being. Because, there are, after all, an ever growing amount of occurrences that influence, or will end up  influencing humans universally. The growing interconnectedness of nations and the ever-shrinking size of the world will make these occurrences even more prolific and necessary to deal with on an international level.

We must bring synergy to the system. A seamless synergy that rises in the form of an organization regulating the international system, but not dominating it.

Sovereignty

If nation states are the building blocks of the system, sovereignty is the concept that cements them together. The quest of the Directive is not one to persuade people to give up their national cultures or identity, or renounce all loyalty to their heritage. Nor is it to create an all-powerful organization that can infringe on the territory of nations whenever it so pleases. It is simply a means of protecting the collective integrity of human condition.  

Sovereignty was founded as an immovable concept: the basis that there is no higher actor than the nation state, and that nations do not have the right to interfere with the business of other nations. Naturally, both of these foundations are dying as non-state actors, most notably multinational corporations, are challenging nations’ monopoly on the world stage and  nations, as a consequence of the power game, are always interfering with the territorial dominance of their counterparts. The only place sovereignty  is held dear is in the classroom and in the non-enforced text of international treaties. In practice, the concept is utterly disregarded.

However, for all its show, pomp, and impracticality, sovereignty does resound one truth that is worthwhile hearing: the premise that governments should not interfere with the business of other governments. This does not mean that those respective governments should not allow provisions for connectivity between nations and the international community, but rather refers to the fact that nations should simply act as domestic administration for their individual territories. However, because of the fight or die nature of the international system, nations are given little choice but to compromise pre-conceptions of sovereignty. Hence, ironically, the only way true sovereignty can be protected in its most unadulterated form is if nations relinquish some of it to an impartial international actor who’s constituents prescribe and conform to international citizenship and identity, aligning themselves with humanity in its broadest from. The Planetary Directive will prevent unjustified infringements of sovereignty, and negate the need for “world policemen” to exist.

Sovereignty can only exist in a state of synergy

 

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