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Argumentative Essay On Collective Security

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A comparative study of the effects of political and economic stability on the principle of collective security, with reference to the League of Nations and the United Nations

“14. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”

These words, taken from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech to the Congress on the 8th of January 1918, created the basis on which the League of Nations would be built after the end of World War One. The League was created on the principle of collective security, a term coined by Wilson himself. The idea behind collective security is that “under a collective security arrangement, an aggressor against any one state is considered an aggressor against all other states, which act together to repel the aggressor.” Collective security clearly failed its first test-run, as the League of Nations failed to stop aggression and World War Two in the 1930s. Nonetheless, the concept was once again used as the basis for a second global organization, the United Nations Organization. Founded in San Francisco in 1945, the UNO is still active and theoretically upholding the principle of collective security, amidst much criticism and debate. The questions arose spontaneously in my mind: why did the League of Nations fail while the United Nations is soon to celebrate its sixtieth birthday? What circumstances

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