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Collective Security Within Reach
By Sovaida Ma'ani Ewing
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If ever there were a great idea that failed most regrettably in its implementation, it is that of international collective security.
The concept is simple: to establish peace, the nations of the world should band together and forcibly reject any aggression among them.
The idea stands at the core of the United Nations Charter, which says the UN's main purpose is to "maintain international peace and security" through "collective measures" including the use of military force.
Yet in practice, the UN has mostly failed to intervene to stop war--or to prevent genocide, human rights violations, terrorism or any of the other things that in today's complexly interdependent world must be considered a breach of the peace.
The main reason for this failure, as any student of political science knows, is that the nations of the world have been unable to create the kind of political unity necessary to undertake collective action in those cases where it is most required.
But the situation is not quite as hopeless as it seems, according...
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