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By employing a system of collective security, the United Nations hopes to dissuade any member state from acting in a manner likely to threaten peace and thus avoid a conflict. Collective security selectively incorporates the concept of both balance of power and global government.
Collective security, system by which states have attempted to prevent or stop wars. Under a collective security arrangement, an aggressor against any one state is considered an aggressor against all other states, which act together to repel the aggressor.
Collective Security is a device of crisis management which postulates a commitment on the part of all the nations to collectively meet an aggression that may be committed by any state against another.
The author challenges the view that collective security is automatic and critiques realism as a theoretical framework on collective security. Concludes that law has a place in collective security by enhancing the accountability of governmental and international institutions.
1 The expression ‘collective security’ is not a term of art in international law. It belongs more to the discipline of international relations, where a ‘collective security system’ may be distinguished from military alliances as well as ‘world government’.
The essence of collective security is described in Article 1 of the UN Charter as follows: ‘to maintain peace and security by the prevention and removal of threats to the peace’; thus conflict prevention is essentially an element of collective security.
The concept of collective security. 1. Collective Security: a historical journey. Introduction. imination of threats to its body politic. The quest for security has preoccupied moral, political and legal thinking and various me.