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“The relations of the Balance of Power to Collective Security have been at the same time complementary and antagonistic.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Balance of power and collective security are rival answers to one question: how can power be prevented from being abused? Inis L. Claude Jr. (Power and International Relations, 1962) treated them, with world government, as alternative approaches to the "problem of power". Woodrow Wilson offered collective security as the cure for a balance he blamed…

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  • Why they are complementary
  • Why they are antagonistic
  • The relationship today
  • Conclusion
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