TOPLU GÜVENLİK

In the post Cold-War era, the problem of international cooperation has been the core of seemless debates involving neo-realist theory as advanced by such scholars as Robert Gilpin, Kenneth Waltz, and Stephen Krasner and institutionalist theories, including the works of such scholars as Robert Keohane, Arthur Stein and Charles Lipson. The rubric of institutions has allured many academics who envisage institutions to be a powerful force for stability. Robert Keohane, for example, argues that "avoiding military conflict in Europe after the Cold War depends greatly on whether the next decade is characterized by a continuous pattern of institutionalized cooperation" (Keohane, 1993:53) In the present world order, institutions appear to be shaping the changes taking place at regional and global levels. In this paper, I plan to concentrate on assessing the collective security theory which is one of the major international relations theories that employ institutions as a core concept.