SHOULD NATIONS ALIGN THEMSELVES WIITH OTHER NATIONS IN THE INTERESTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND WORL PEACE?

The issue in this position paper is, should nations align themselves with other nations in the interests of national security and world peace. The importance of this issue is to maintain and preserve world peace and world stability. The dilemma of this issue is that world peace and stability can be maintained either by an alliance within nations or through non-alliance. The alternative position underlining this issue is that nations believe that the goal of world peace may best be attained through joining a power bloc. My position in this is topic is that world peace must best be attained through joining a power bloc or an alliance system.



Nations should align themselves with other nations because, after the Second World War given the technology of mass destruction available to us today, it is a successful way of decreasing global conflict and peace is accomplished as a result. An example of this would be the Cold War. The two main countries involved in the cold war were th...