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Historical
Hellenic Period
502-449 BC Medic Wars
Hellenic League - Athens, Lacedemonia, Macedon, others
431-404 BC Peloponnesian War
League of Delos - Athens, Argos, Chios, Samos, Lesbos, others
Peloponnesian League - Lacedemonia, Corinth, Thebes,
Syracuse, others
Confederate alliance of Greek city-states
Middle Ages
634-1853 Christian-Islamic Wars
Crusades - France, England, Holy Roman Empire, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Republic of Venice
Reconquista - Portugal, Castile
Jihad - Fatimid Caliphate, Sultanate of Damascus
Ethio-Portuguese Treaties - Portugal, Ethiopia
Twentieth century
World War I
1902-1923 Anglo-Japanese Alliance - United Kingdom and
Japan
1907-1918 the Entente and the Allies - Russian empire (to 1917),
United Kingdom, France, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Portugal (from
1916)
1914-1918 the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary,
Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
World War II
1939-1945 the Allies - United States, United Kingdom and the
Commonwealth, Soviet Union, Poland, France, Republic of
China, many others.
1940-1945 the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, and many others.
Alliances in the Second World War
Cold War
1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact)
- Most of the countries of the Americas.
1948-2011 Western European Union (WEU) - limited role.
Merged with EU in 2009.
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) -- United
States, Canada, most of Western Europe
Contemporary
Europe
NATO, Enlarged from 1999 to include eastern European states. Twenty eight countries including the United
States, Canada and most of Europe including Turkey.
European Union, created in 1992 with foreign policy and defence policy being developed over the next two
decades. In 2009 common defence provisions were significantly enhanced.
Entente Cordiale / Defence and Security Co-operation Treaty is a joint Military alliance between France
and the United Kingdom.
Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, originally signed in 1373, is the oldest alliance still in force in the world.
Eurasia
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), formed in 1992 in after the collapse of the Soviet Union Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), formed in 1996 to counterbalance NATO expansion - China,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Organization of the Eurasian Law Enforcement Agencies with Military Status (TAKM) is an
intergovernmental military co-operation organization of four Altaic countries (Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan
and Mongolia).
Japan and the United States entered into a security alliance following the allied occupation after WWII.
South Korea and the United States entered into a military alliance following the Korean War.
Mutual Defense Treaty (U.S.Philippines) is a joint US-Philippine Defence Treaty.
Israel & the United States.
Other regions
Council for Peace and Security in Central Africa (COPAX) of Economic Community of Central African States set
up in 1994, limited scope.
South American Defense Council (SADC) of the Union of South American Nations, developed form 2008.
Full extent of provisions yet to be agreed.
ANZUS is a joint military alliance between the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Five Power Defence Arrangements, signed in 1971 to prevent the Malaysian Peninsula, or
Singapore from external or foreign aggression.
Peninsula Shield Force The military force of the Persian Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain
References
Liska, George. Alliances and the Third World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
Pressman, Jeremy. Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2008.
Snyder, Glenn H. Alliance Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Walt, Stephen. The Origins of Alliances. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Weitsman, Patricia. Dangerous Alliances. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004.
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