POLS 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alexis De Tocqueville, Distributive Justice, Tabula Rasa

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 110
• Professor: David Haglund

Document Summary

Or has something else taken its place: peace keeping, responsibility to protect, textbook definition: An arrangement where each state in the sys accepts that the security of 1 is the concern of all. Agrees to join in a collective response to aggression. It is also the foundational principle of the league of nations; member states would take a threat/attack on 1 member as an assault on them all. They are expected to respond in unison. Although, in 1920-30s theory and practice diverged widely; league members failed to take action against japanese imperialism in asia or. Collective defense: collective defense keeps the peace but you"ve got to get the balance of power right, nato is a collective defense org not a collective security org (big diff!!) Units make up the sys, these units are states (not nations) Ex: liberal demo peace theory (dpt), governing structure, not so much the state by the nature of the societies.