Collective Security
Collective security is both supported and criticized as an approach to prevent the outbreak of war. It has existed for many centuries but began to be practiced more prominently after World War I. The purpose of this paper is to define collective security to produce a detailed understanding of what it essentially represents, its theory, how it succeeded, and the prospects for collective security being used against modern challenges, such as terrorism and civil war. Collective security is a defense mechanism that has been used during times of war, peace and external threats. It has been praised and criticized, and today it faces many questions with regards to modern day issues in terms of internal and external state conflicts. In the context of the modern world, collective security has become the best system for cohesiveness and cooperation on the international level.
Collective security is an international arrangement; this portion of the paper will first define the term collective security and some of its theories. Both realists and liberals have criticized it. Collective security is defined as, “a security regime agreed to by the great powers that sets rules for keeping peace, guided by the principle that an act of aggression by any state will be met by a collective response from the rest.” The United Nations (UN) created the collective Security Council on October 24, 1945. The theory of collective security is focused on the sovereign equality of states. One of the most famous forms of collective security was the institutional mechanism. This vision creates problems today by the role that was given to the great powers in the UN Security Council. In theory, collective security is created on the basis of respect for the political independence and territorial integrity of states; therefore, it does not allow any interference into the internal affairs of the states. There have been attempts at creating peace during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The
Collective security is an international arrangement; this portion of the paper will first define the term collective security and some of its theories. Both realists and liberals have criticized it. Collective security is defined as, “a security regime agreed to by the great powers that sets rules for keeping peace, guided by the principle that an act of aggression by any state will be met by a collective response from the rest.” The United Nations (UN) created the collective Security Council on October 24, 1945. The theory of collective security is focused on the sovereign equality of states. One of the most famous forms of collective security was the institutional mechanism. This vision creates problems today by the role that was given to the great powers in the UN Security Council. In theory, collective security is created on the basis of respect for the political independence and territorial integrity of states; therefore, it does not allow any interference into the internal affairs of the states. There have been attempts at creating peace during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The
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