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Collective security was a key principle underpinning the League of Nations and the United Nations. [1] Collective security is more ambitious than systems of alliance security or collective defense in that it seeks to encompass the totality of states within a region or indeed globally.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) maintains a peacekeeping force that has been deployed to areas of conflict, including Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The force is composed of troops from member states and is designed to provide stability and security in the region.
The Warsaw Pact (WP), [d] formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), [e] was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
NATO is a military alliance of thirty-two European and North American countries that constitutes a system of collective defense. The process of joining the alliance is governed by Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which allows for the invitation of "other European States" only and by subsequent agreements. Countries wishing to join must ...
The Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty was signed on 8 September 1954 in Manila, [1] as part of the American Truman Doctrine of creating anti-communist bilateral and collective defense treaties. [2] These treaties and agreements were intended to create alliances that would keep communist powers in check (Communist China, in SEATO's case). [3]
The CSDP structure is sometimes referred to as the European Defence Union (EDU), especially in relation to its prospective development as the EU's defence arm. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ c ] Decisions relating to the CSDP are proposed by the HR/VP, adopted by the FAC, generally requiring unanimity, and then implemented by the HR/VP.
It is part of the US' collective defense arrangement with Western European powers, following a long and deliberative process. [4] The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against Western Europe in mind, [ 5 ] although the mutual self-defense clause was never invoked during the Cold War .
The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance [2] (commonly known as the Rio Treaty, the Rio Pact, the Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, or by the Spanish-language acronym TIAR from Tratado Interamericano de Asistencia Recíproca) is an intergovernmental collective security agreement signed in 1947 in Rio de Janeiro at a meeting of the American states.