The concept of the security dilemma can be applied to ethnic conflict.

This spiral of insecurity is known as the 'security dilemma'.

Other theories can be considered in terms of the security dilemma.

The security dilemma is the core assumption of defensive realism.

The conclusion from defensive realism is that in some circumstances states can escape the security dilemma.

Jervis uses four scenarios to describe the intensity of the security dilemma.

In particular, under given circumstances of the security dilemma, what steps might a threatened state take to derive advantage by attacking first.

In such cases the security dilemma can arise generating perceptions of a "first strike advantage".

Arms control is meant to break the security dilemma.

This lack of trust, based on uncertainty, is called the security dilemma.