0 agreement among a group of nations to act on behalf of each other
1 an agreement among a group of nations to act on behalf of each other.
Based on political agreements alone, the idea of collective security is a chimera.
The principle of collective security was propounded by him in statements addressed to the rulers of the world.
Collective security, they believed, was a chimera, designed for the credulously naive.
It was not an ordinary framework of international cooperation among equal participants, such as those dealing with collective security or global warming.
Some sort of collective security should be reconstructed, but how?
However, in reality, missions that were conducted under this law would be collective security missions.
Here was a body of sovereign states committed to collective security and the promotion of the self-determination of nations.
Beyond its military weakness, the chieftaincy was also less relevant as a framework for collective security.