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“A well-established system of collective security is a guarantee of world peace.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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The statement restates the Wilsonian promise for a globalised age. If every state commits in advance to resist aggression by any other, and if interdependence makes every breach everyone's loss, then war becomes irrational. Collective security, the principle that an attack on one is an attack on all, met by the combined strength of all,…

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