| The absence of genuine collective security during the Cold War did not prevent misuse of the term. |
| There is the mistaken belief that collective security is coextensive with the entire security structure, which it is not. |
| Otherwise, collective security remained more an ideal than a reality as the twentieth century ended. |
| Almost immediately, the emergence of the Cold War undercut hopes that the United Nations could serve as a means of collective security. |
| We need to focus our attention on where the next threat to our collective security will come from. |
| At the third level, the international community has put in place the apparatus of global collective security in the United Nations. |
