With the ideals and visions of world peace and safety, with respect to the invasion of an unspecified country, every state recognized the need of collective security that corresponds to the act of aggression.
Collective security in reality has experie...
With the ideals and visions of world peace and safety, with respect to the invasion of an unspecified country, every state recognized the need of collective security that corresponds to the act of aggression.
Collective security in reality has experienced the Italo-Ethiopian War between 1935 and 1936 and the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. Ethiopia is a country that experienced the collective security.
I examine closely the Ethiopia’s change in perception of collective security from the perspective of collective security theory and its analysis and also look at the expected likelihood of collective security.
As the only independent country in Africa around that time, Ethiopia filed the invasion of Italy in 1935 to the League of Nations and addressed an appeal to collective security. However, they did not receive any response.
Ethiopia regained independence in 1941 but the army was disarmed and many people including a number of intellectuals were killed. As a result, the country became devastated.
Despite this dire situation, Ethiopia sent troops to South Korea when the Korean War broke out in 1950 as part of the United Nations forces.
Ethiopia has had confidence in collective security and demonstrated its strong will and action to secure collective security through their experience in addressing an appeal to it.
Although Ethiopia did not receive help from the League of Nations, they have never lost faith in collective security. And this faith was the driving force of their participation in the Korean War and of keeping world peace and safety.