Discussion
Choose the correct statement about 'security dilemma' from the following. Use codes :
(i) An important paradox inherent in the state system.
(ii) The existence of states is to provide security of its citizens by maintaining armed forces.
(iii) The existence of armed forces threatens the very security, they are expected to maintain.
(iv) There is no escape from the international security dilemma because there is no possibility forming a world government.
Codes :
Answer: B
The keyed answer is that (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) are all correct.
The security dilemma, described by John Herz and Herbert Butterfield, is a central paradox of the state system (i): states exist to provide security for their citizens and maintain armed forces for that purpose (ii), but each state's arms make its neighbours insecure, prompting them to arm in turn, so armed forces end up threatening the very security they are meant to maintain (iii).
In the realist reading the key adopts, there is no escape from this dilemma as long as the system is anarchic, and no world government is possible to end the anarchy (iv). Every option that marks one of these statements incorrect is therefore ruled out.
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