Abstract
The principle of Collective Security provides rationality for a range of international organisations – such as the UN, NATO, EU, and OSCE - which all attempt to uphold international peace and stability. What is the utility of collective security? How does it contribute to international peace and security? This paper reflects on these fundamental questions through an analysis of collective security principles at work in Euro-Atlantic space. It first raises and answers the question: what is Collective Security. Second, it examines the operationalisation of collective security, defence and cooperative security principles in historical and contemporary spheres. It focuses on the collective security principle at work in the League of Nations, UN, NATO, EU and OSCE. It asks of these examples – what are the perceived strengths and weaknesses of collective security when it is applied? Third, it concludes by arguing whether the existing collective security organizations in Europe and Euro-Atlantic region can serve as a universal mechanism for collective security or collective defence, cooperation and conflict prevention and analyse, the organising principles, logic and architecture of European security, the necessity for redefinition of the existing European security order. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n27p274
Highlights
The principle of Collective Security provides rationality for a range of international organisations – such as the UN, NATO, EU, and OSCE - which all attempt to uphold international peace and stability
What is the utility of collective security? How does it contribute to international peace and security? This paper reflects on these fundamental questions through an analysis of collective security principles at work in Euro-Atlantic space
It examines the operationalisation of collective security, defence and cooperative security principles in historical and contemporary spheres. It focuses on the collective security principle at work in the League of Nations, UN, NATO, EU and OSCE. It asks of these examples – what are the perceived strengths and weaknesses of collective security when it is applied? Third, it concludes by arguing whether the existing collective security organizations in Europe and Euro-Atlantic region can serve as a universal mechanism for collective security or collective defence, cooperation and conflict prevention and analyse, the organising principles, logic and architecture of European security, the necessity for redefinition of the existing European security order
Summary
The centuries of experiences so far in the international efforts for finding global peace show that the traditional concepts of security do not provide adequate solutions for the current challenges of inter-state conflict and regional instability. In the research of this very significant and current segment of collective security, as opposed to the threats to world peace and stability, one can find two directions in international relations which are treated as: realism and liberalism, both demonstrating an era when war was considered as a legitimate instrument in politics. Any nation within the regional or international system that commits aggression, imperils the peace, or grossly exceeds the bounds of civilised behaviour violates the norms of that collective security system and is subject to enforcement action. “Cooperative security” can be defined as sustainable efforts to reduce the risk of war which are not directed towards a specific country or coalition of countries and can be said to have appeared in the recent period, when the countries are developing the spirit of a common future. By accepting the new approach to develop cooperative security the countries begin to understand that the unilateral efforts to increase their security may be doomed to failure, since the activities of one country cause the same reactions by another country, which decreases the security of both
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