POLI 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Collective Security, Economic Nationalism, Security Dilemma

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 211
• Professor: Jason Scott Ferrell

Document Summary

All nations have to be involved in order for this to be meaningful. Collective security is not meant to be an expedient. It"s meant to establish a new order of politics. Police provide defence, provide order and exhibit the common good of the community. Boundaries between international politics and domestic level politics are blurred. It"s meant to override domestic level considerations when it comes to security issues. Combination of parity and universality means that it aims at the preponderance of power, not the balance of it. A close balance of power is not enough to deter actors. Disarmament: states are expected to disarm to some level. Negative peace: the absence of war balance of power sees negative peace as peace. Positive peace: states are working towards a common goal. Renunciation of violence except for cases of self defence or under some sort of international supervision. Aims at aggressive behaviour, not at speci c actors.