Explain how diversity challenges international security.

What will be an ideal response?

World politics is characterized by a myriad of players. About 200 states and many thousands of nationalities are involved, as are hundreds of international organizations and thousands of non-governmental organizations. Businesses of various shapes and sizes, including those transnational corporations whose production facilities and reach extend across borders and regions, interact with each other, with the governments of countries, with international organizations, and with groups and individuals all over the world. The diversity of these players is staggering. States come in different shapes and sizes and are differentiated by size (geographic and population), wealth (from the very rich to the very poor), type of economy, and regime type (from the many flavors of both democratic and nondemocratic systems). Widely differing ideas, religions, cultures, and subcultures divide the players in world politics as well. Such diversity has important consequences for international interactions.