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Claude: Collective Security as an Approach to Peace [9679e703]

Tags: papers, un and global governance lecture 1

Inis L. Claude Jr. “Collective Security as an Approach to Peace.” Accessed February 2, 2021.

  • Collective security is a halfway point between anarchy and world governement
  • talks about how collective security has become a bandied about term, but means something completely different

The achievement of orthodox status is very often fatal to the integreity of a concept

  • "collective security" began as a specialized term, initially meant to hamstring aggressions

    • now has largely lost its meaning, appropriated for any & all approaches to collective actions that build peace and order, synonym for world peace
  • collective security should be defined as "a second line of defense against wars where settlement should but does not prevent a war"
  • assumptions: wars are likely to occur and most can be prevented
  • about forestalling the arbitrary & aggresive use of force

  • constract with pacific security

    • pacific security - moral ambiguity, uses tools like investigating, reconciliation, arbitration, etc
    • collective security - moral clarity, uses diplomatic, economic, and military sanctions

1. subjective requirements on collective security

  • aggression in one part of the world is not localized, things can easily spread

  • people & states must recongize their interests align with the international

  • fundalmentally requires the state to give up very much

    • control of military
    • follow rulebook adherence to international order
    • runs against the instincts of statement and politicians
  • collective security is meant to be used against any state, anonomous aggressors and anonomyous victims
  • states must be confidence in collective security, or else the whole thing falls apart

2. objective requirements

  • power: requires several great powers of equal strength

  • membership: must be universal, assumes any state may become aggressor

    • proposes that the preponderance of power be available to any state
  • aims for the organization of police action, requires a world where every state is caught in and dependent on one other
  • requires large scale disarmament and lack of economic self sufficiency