Antarcticland, one Nation one Planet

Antarcticland, one Nation one Planet

Who establishes the parameters that decide who can be considered a state or no? The rules were set by the Convention of Montevideo on the rights and duties of the States, which is a treaty signed at Montevideo (Uruguay) on December 26, 1933, for the occasion of the VII International Conference of the American States. Obviously, many unrecognized nations didn’t ratify it, a phenomenon which occurs frequently because of the desire and interests of the large powers. At this conference, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, and the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, signed what is commonly known as the “Good neighbor Policy”, which blocked the States’ armed forces from intervening in the internal affairs of the other American States. This was the first diplomatic attempt intended to invert the route of the “Imperialistic United States” expansion, determined by the policies carried out by his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt. The convention was signed by 19 states (three with some reserve).
Article 1 is the best known, because it sets 4 fundamental norms for the signing states, important norms regarding the assumption of the legal international personality, which is the contextual presence of:
- A permanent population;
- A defined territory;
- An exclusive government power;
- The capacity to maintain relations with other states.
In addition, the first paragraph of the first article explicitly declares that the political existence of a State is independent of its recognition by other States. Switzerland adheres to some of these principles, but also confirms that “a political entity doesn’t need to be recognized to become a State, nor does it have the obligation of recognizing others. Being recognized is not a sufficient requirement for founding a State, nor is its absence cause to abolish it.”
A group of intellectuals, among whom several Italians, including la     wyers, economists, diplomats, journalists, ecologists, doctors and poets who have dared to challenge the Great world States and with Shakespearean principles have given life to a “fearless new world” claiming to the United Nations, on the basis of historical reasoning, a State amidst the ice of the Antarctic: Antarcticland.