The World Assembly Should be the Primary Forefront and Focus of TNP Foreign Affairs

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The World Assembly Should be the Primary Forefront and Focus of TNP Foreign Affairs

The support of the World Assembly Legislative League, it was once said, meant that a resolution was guaranteed to pass. With thousands of WA votes at hand, the WALL as a block was a pretty much insurmountable obstacle to resolutions and authors it opposed.

This is no longer the case. The East Pacific has vastly increased their endorsement levels, so too have other regions and more cooperation between them combined with a more effective and rebellious rank and file in the World Assembly means that WALL no longer represents such an unsurpassed power block. It is still extremely powerful and WALL support of a resolution can often be the defining factor of whether it fails or succeeds. I posit that The North Pacific could, and should, do more.

There’s been a general lack of consequences based approaches to foreign affairs for a number of years now. Issues arising in Balder and The South Pacific are dismissed or not commented upon because they’re friends and allies. Leveraging TNP’s WA vote to aid or oppose their goals in the WA, or to condemn their leaders, is a definitive and strong way to show that actions do indeed have consequences. Using this against allies would be a drastic measure, but statements don’t seem to have any effect in moderating behaviour we should find worthy of comment, even if we don’t comment on it.

Leveraging our vote in a positive way can also be used to build new relationships and even more powerful voting blocks. The East Pacific is increasingly World Assembly focussed and between them and other key players, present an opportunity to build upon the foundations laid down by the likes of United Massachusetts and their work in our Discord and World Assembly forum.

Bringing other regions with higher concentrations of World Assembly authors into TNP alliances - either by bilateral treaties or entry into WALL - should be a key goal for any World Assembly focussed foreign policy. Good relations with regions such as Forest, Ridgefield and fellow GCRs such as Osiris and The Rejected Realms that are active in either chamber of the WA should be pursued and cooperation on World Assembly matters would be a key component of that.

The North Pacific Army also can be utilised to pursue our chosen WA outlook. The ’WA Blocker’ is a potentially very powerful tool with which World Assembly resolutions can be prevented from reaching quorum by removing delegates that have approved the resolution. The feasibility for the reverse - getting resolutions to quorum by taking regions and approving resolutions - has yet to be tested, but could also yield productive results.

The limits of a World Assembly focussed foreign policy can be mitigated by also spending adequate time cultivating ties with non-WA focussed regions, and seeking to smooth over any potential disputes by leveraging our WA vote in favour of the upset party. It will take careful managing and effort by the Delegate and his ministers of Foreign and World Assembly Affairs, but a World Assembly focussed foreign policy is entirely the kind of refreshing outlook that can help shake things up, both at home and abroad.
 
The World Assembly Should be the Primary Forefront and Focus of TNP Foreign Affairs

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The North Pacific Army also can be utilised to pursue our chosen WA outlook. The ’WA Blocker’ is a potentially very powerful tool with which World Assembly resolutions can be prevented from reaching quorum by removing delegates that have approved the resolution. The feasibility for the reverse - getting resolutions to quorum by taking regions and approving resolutions - has yet to be tested, but could also yield productive results.

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So I would be right in saying that you could found a region with a WA puppet, get another person to move in a WA to get either into the delegacy to approve a given proposal (or multiple), and keep the region passworded for the duration of the operation?
 
So I would be right in saying that you could found a region with a WA puppet, get another person to move in a WA to get either into the delegacy to approve a given proposal (or multiple), and keep the region passworded for the duration of the operation?
I'm more thinking of a situation where a resolution is set to miss quorum that update, but is close, and so you target delegates not currently endorsing the resolution and take them out and approve the resolution.
 
It is certainly possible for TNP to mobilize more muscle when it comes to WA Affairs. The issue comes from lack of motivation to do so.

Politics in the General Assembly is primarily among individuals, and rarely a struggle between regions. For the most part, TNP and other regions don't espouse a particular GA 'ideology', and realistically we form our vote based on the opinions of a few regulars within our region, not really a region-wide policy. The last few votes has seen TNP vote against authors in WALL regions not due to any animosity between regions or a breakdown of WALL's power, but because low-stake proposals make regional distinctions kinda irrelevant. Consequently, while it would certainly be possible to mobilize the entire leadership of the TNP and WALL to achieve our desired vote, the whole region itself has little motivation or interest in doing so, since the region collectively has no stake in the fight, rather it being a differing of opinions between a few regulars.

SC is an entirely different story, but still you run into the lack of regional WA ideology problem. How do we determine when a 3rd party condemnation/commendation is ideologically relevant to their goals in the WA? Furthermore, the SC population typically is against politically-based condemnations/commendations, leaving the majority of condemnation/commendations regarding fascists or role players, neither very polarizing topics.
 
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Unfortunately,most people rarely pay attention to the WA other than a means to attain endorsements to control regions.
 
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