> There will be no international army, and nations will control their
> own police. The only guarantee will be the solemn promise of all
> nations to come to the assistance of any nation that is invaded,
> thereby making aggression pointless
Not so sure that one can say there will be no international army. The Baha'i
Faith envisages a number of stages of the evolution of peace. The Lesser
Peace, especially the late configuration of it, is described by Shoghi
Effendi in his World Order letter the Unfoldment of World Civilization, and
he envisages this:
A world executive, backed by an international Force, will carry out the
decisions arrived at, and apply the laws enacted by, this world legislature,
and will safeguard the organic unity of the whole commonwealth. (Shoghi
Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 203)
The Most Great Peace, on the other hand, which is a consequence of the
allegiance of the bulk of mankind to the Revelation of Baha'u'llah as
Redemmer and Unifier of Mankind, is envisaged as a state of
perpetual/eternal peace in which the fetish of war, even as a means of
maintaining or establishing peace, is finally abandoned in the process of
the achievement of mankinds collective coming of age. The Most Great Peace
itself may extend across future Manifestations.
Collective security of the form you describe would be an early configuration
of the Lesser Peace, not too dissmilar as to what has evolved since World
War II. But this configuration does not prevent large or aggressive member
nation states flexing military muscles unilaterally, if it suits them, as
recent history shows.
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