Indivisible security

{{Short description|Cold War security concept}} {{use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} '''Indivisible security''' or the '''indivisibility of security''' is a term first used during the Cold War.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2022-02-07 |title=What is 'indivisible security'? The principle at the heart of Russia's ire against Nato |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/84a43896-2dfd-4be4-8d2a-c68a5a68547a |access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-03 |title=Why does Russia focus on 'indivisible security' in Ukraine standoff? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/why-does-russia-focus-on-indivisible-security-in-ukraine-standoff |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> First included in the Helsinki Accords as the "indivisibility of security in Europe", the term states that the security of one nation is inseparable from other countries in its region.<ref name=":0" /> In 2022, Russia has used this term to justify its military build-up near Ukraine, which ultimately led to a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.<ref name=":0" /> The term has also been promoted by China,<ref>{{Cite web |title="Indivisible security" endorsed by international community: Chinese FM-Xinhua |url=https://english.news.cn/20220425/0cf8218d7c124ece8ddd0d2c52f64c2d/c.html |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=Xinhua News}}</ref> including as part of its promoted "global security initiative".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Yao |first1=Kevin |last2=Tian |first2=Yew Lun |date=2022-04-22 |title=China's Xi proposes 'global security initiative', without giving details |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xi-says-unilateral-sanctions-will-not-work-2022-04-21/ |access-date=2022-08-13}}</ref>

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== Sources == * {{cite book | last1=Lanko | first1=Dmitry | last2=Yarovoy | first2=Gleb | title=The Routledge Handbook of Russian International Relations Studies | chapter=From Stalin to Putin: Indivisibility of Peace and Security in Russian IR Scholarship and Foreign Policy | publisher=Routledge | publication-place=London | date=2023-01-06 | isbn=978-1-003-25726-4 | doi=10.4324/9781003257264-24}} * {{cite journal | last1=Zha | first1=Daojiong | last2=Dong | first2=Ting | title=A Chinese Notion of Indivisibility of Security? | journal=Asian Perspective | publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press | volume=47 | issue=2 | year=2023 | issn=2288-2871 | doi=10.1353/apr.2023.0012 | pages=323–330| s2cid=258964723 }} * {{cite book | editor-last=Monaghan | editor-first=A. | title=The Indivisibility of Security: Russia and Euro-Atlantic Security | publisher=NATO Defense College, Research Division | series=Forum papers series | year=2010 | url=https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/113832/fp_13-1.pdf | access-date=2023-06-20}}

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