How should states who are all facing the same security dilemma interact

Within a society, the populace ar compelled to follow rules due to being prompted by a higher authority. When these virtues fail, rectifying this deficiency becomes a priority of the kingdom murderers are arrested, riots are suppressed, new regulations and safe checks are imposed to deter future renegades from harassing the system. These actions by the states sovereign post ensure that the community remains harmonious and balanced. Within the transnational community an individual state is otiose to defer to a higher authority to demand that justice be enforced, since there is no authority higher than the state itself. The consequence of this is that free nations are forced to rely on themselves for security within transnational society. These facts lead to a question that has been at the core of just struggle theory debates how should states who are all facing the same security predicament interact with one another? The various theoretical answers to this question di screpancy to two fundamentally opposed conclusions nations will either seek to increase their individual power to facilitate their own security, or will invent an international union to ensure mutual defense. While the latter promotes an international community based upon cooperation, the former predicts perpetual conflict. In order to fulfill an analysis of these conflicting predictions we will turn to Thucydides, who provides a historical lesson of this debate within his recount of the Melian Dialogue. Within this dialogue, the powerful Athenians assert that peculiarity alone justifies their demand for the submission of the weaker island of Melos. The Melians counter with their own plea to justice, claiming that the growth of Athenian power and Melian autonomy a... ...rve life and avoid death proves that the law of nature is more suited to cooperation than conflict. Using power to maintain power ensures the necessity of the continual use of force to quell those who a states power is used to oppress. As the Athenians looked to history to prove that temperament always compels men to rule over anyone they can control, it fails to recognize that nature also compels men to be free, and the violence of the oppressor will be honeycombed against the violence oppressed. Even if the more powerful state is successful in its conquest, it will always be at war with those whose liberty it infringes upon. The enduringness that a nation utilizes to allow them to conquer today will be the same strength that forces them to fight tomorrow, and the next day. For these reasons the arguments of the Athenians must(prenominal) be rejected for those of the Melians.