Foreign Policy

The principle of 'collective security', underlying organizations such as the United Nations, holds that an act of aggression against any one member state should be treated as a concern requiring a coordinated response from

• A.The broader community of member states acting collectively
• B.No state at all, since aggression should simply be ignored
• C.Only the state directly attacked, acting entirely alone
• D.Only the strongest military power in the world

The concept of balance of power, alongside principles like sovereignty, reciprocity and pacta sunt servanda, forms part of the broader theoretical toolkit used to analyse

• A.Only civil service management
• B.Only local government structures
• C.Only domestic administrative law
• D.State behaviour and stability within the international system

The reliance of the international system on principles like pacta sunt servanda, in the absence of a single global government to enforce agreements, reflects that international order depends significantly on

• A.The complete absence of any rules
• B.Total anarchy with no cooperation
• C.Coercive enforcement by a world government
• D.Mutual consent, reciprocity and voluntary compliance by sovereign states