Lady Gaga and the International System

I would like to start off by saying that I am not familiar with Lady Gaga, because I was absorbed in my home country's popular culture. However, as Lady Gaga's reputation goes, I have heard about her and her eccentricities.

Obviously, if Lady Gaga was a state, then it definitely would be one of the most bizarre nation-state in the history, yet, we must first realize she is a human, albeit a eccentric one. What this means if translated in terms of states is that it would have a government, and it would have the bureaucracy to handle the day to day activities, just like any other state, because these two institutions are the basis of a surviving state. The manner in which these institutions work would definitely be not normal, but they will exist nonetheless. The fact that it would have the basic skeletal form of a state means that it would be accepted as a functional state, and more likely to be accepted as part of the international community.

So, other states would deal with country of Gaga just as they would deal with any other state. However, this new state, whether through realist, liberal, or constructivist view, simply cannot survive in the international system. From a realist approach, this new state would need some kind of an army, but the army of this state would be inefficient. Most armies around the world today follow the same general set of doctrines that maximize the strength, but Gaga would definitely advocate for an unconventional form, which is most likely to fail when faced with other armies. Thus, the army would be weak, and the state would be taken over. From a liberal point of view, the Gaga state would be way too bizarre to be dealt in a conventional manner and in an international system where interdependence is so crucial, Gaga would fail because of her eccentricity in dealing with other people. From a constructivist view, the people of Gaga, who are "weird" will project its idea on the state goal, so this goal would also be out of norm, and it is most likely to be not accepted in a favorable view.

Thus, a state of Gaga would definitely not survive in today's international system, which means that it will not have the power to affect the international system direly; it would fall before it projects any influence.