PRECARIOUS GOVERNING IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

 

PRECARIOUS GOVERNING IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Actual Foreign Policies as Driving Force of Civilizational Paralysis

Theses by J Michael Heynen

1. Regional and international governing can commonly be estimated to what is known as kakistocracy (rule by the worst). Egocentric and insubstantial personalities "govern" at best without, but mostly in opposite to civilizational responsibility in the sense of aristocratic governing (rule by the best).

2. The governing from the "substructure" („Unterbau“) uses pseudo-legitimizing religious and/or ideological forms from the "superstructure" („Überbau“) to usually camouflage fascistoid, imperialistic dominance as messianistic "world saving" and to make belief the subsequent "world salvation“. Despite all the negative historical experience: unprofessional rulers take refuge in unregulated, purely projected large-scale systems (globalization) with simultaneous overstretching of subordinated subsystems and/or single political fields as well as excessive military rearmament.

3. International law gives way to the supposed law of the strongest or its projection. Diplomacy and international discourse are not even independently facilitated or enforced by the UN. The UN members' inability to reform proves that political power without law describes the end of anthropocene responsibility for the civilization in one of its highest levels of development.

4. The international legal and regulatory systems based on freedom, voluntariness, and conviction are misunderstood when they are used to justify and legitimize economic and military expansive interests and are thus turned into the opposite. This aberration – perhaps originally well-meaning idealistic – especially in the West has caused one of the greatest and most far-reaching security risks in the international system. As a result, self-overestimating and overstretching sanction regimes are an expression of traditional ignorance of foreign cultures and their systems of order and their different stages of development.

5. Governing thus reaches the final stage of precarity above all when war is no longer the (ultimate) consequence of politics, but its alternative. The connectedness of people in the Anthropocene makes diplomacy to be the ultima ratio: because foreign policies are first and foremost to be understood as a responsibility for life and to be mastered out of excellence.

6. Current foreign policies are mostly also the reflection of respective domestic policies: The paralysis of international rule of law with a “solution” through war begins in domestic politics precisely when social discourse is systematically thwarted, i. a. through the absence of transparency and truth-finding processes, of enlightenment and verification. Here, too, Western governing has – at least since 2001 – increasingly clearly failed, even despite the greatest achievements in international / European legal / cultures: Strategic potentials, insofar as they still exist, are mostly exclusively geared towards the generation of aggressively manipulative fear and threat narratives.

7. The recent estimation that the international system is "in a revolutionary situation", possibly based on a so-called "system rivalry", is just as absurd as the megalomaniac drafts of a so-called "global reset". These horizons of a fata morgana prove the deep-seated precariousness of governing and the helplessness of the rulers to legitimize truthful and intelligent power. This kind of significant systemic, global political failure of civilization might open up the chance of understanding still in time: At the end of 2022, the international system is more anarchic than ever, not even the correlations between causes and effects can be clearly and truly identified. The construction of a so-called „New World Order“ has failed and the world was never been further from it than now; of course, this was foreseeable, since a world order based on the “substructure” as just a power surrogate must fail.

Will there be a reversal? Finally it can be realized: civilizational foreign policies need to be assigned and classified according to Kant's 'categorical imperative' - analogous to the represented / governed individual and his normative development.

A way out? What to do?

I. Halt, détente, inversion, reflection, transformation: Stop any kind of supremacy, instead regional and global cooperation towards regional and universal normativity within the framework of discourse and agreement - without double standards, with a clear and authentic definition of identity and interest as well as multilateral, pluralistic vision formation of an anthropocenic responsibility and human connectedness,

II. Tightening of the international legal order and innovative international regime formation (or adjustment) for efficient conflict resolution, transparent and transformative shaping of the future as well as preventive mechanisms of global distributive justice,

III. In transition, introduction of good governing - in accordance to civilization - as a professional, aristocratic service based on consistent transpersonality and open human leadership on the basis of appropriate respect for individual self-governance to overcome the principal-agent dilemma, with a dedicated renunciation of any kind of religious / ideological messianism and technical-transhumanistic projections,

IV. Development of 'eternal peace' primarily from the potential of creative facility of judgment and reason, even also not "by the grace of God", but from the universal legal and humane step formation towards the divine sphere, i.e. from the human noosphere for the geo- and biosphere, from the "superstructure" for the "substructure" and the existential sustainability of the anthropocentric planet,

V. "Eternal peace" is unconditionally to be understood as an imperative based on the inner peace of the free, individually determined human being and to be designed in inter-/societal discourse and to be maintained through integer governing. In doing so, the infinite mind and soul potentials according to the dignity and reason of the human being must finally be fully and consistently trusted in order to generate a spiritual, a universal-transpersonal world order directing the real-factual one being derived from it: through the inversion of the emanation, based on the human noosphere to develop a humane-adequate normativity for the formation of a 'Noumenal World Order' * ...

[* The draft of an NWO is in preparation and

actual focus of the NOMOI INSTITUTE ]

© J Michael Heynen | Director of  NOMOI INSTITUTE  

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