| Such a transformation realigns governments, legislatures, and armed forces to multinational collective security and collective defense. |
| United Nations members are pledged to collective security, i.e. to protecting any member nation from aggression at the hands of another. |
| We need to focus our attention on where the next threat to our collective security will come from. |
| With the ideological polarity of the cold war, the UN procedures for collective security were still-born. |
| 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. |
