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Article: The making of a security community: the United Nations after the Cold War. (Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-First Century)
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- Journal of International Affairs
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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In passing from the Cold War to the present, the old alliances of East and West have traded the angst of doomsday for the complexity of community living. During the Cold War period, so long as the alliances' security policies were dictated by the so-called clear and present danger of annihilation, their moral foundations were self-evident. So long as their resources were equal to the threats they faced, the alliances were physically and politically self-sufficient as well. The bipolar structure of the Cold War dispensed with any necessity, and prevented any ability, to build a universal security consensus, much less consult with one. Challenges to the justice or equity of ...