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List of military alliances

Europe divided by two competing militaryalliances during the Cold War

A military alliance is an agreement between two, or more, militaryfactions; related to wartime planning, commitments, or contingencies;such agreements can be both defensive and offensive. Militaryalliances often involve non-military agreements, in addition to theirprimary purpose.

Historical

Confederate alliance of Greek city-states

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

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

1337-1453 100 Years War Auld Alliance - Scotland, France, Norway Treaty of Windsor - Portugal, England

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Early modern period

All the participants in the Napoleonic Wars. Blue:The Coalition and their colonies and allies.

Green: The First French Empire, its protectoratesand colonies.

1494-1559 Italian Wars League of Cambrai - The Papal States, France, Aragon, Holy

Roman Empire Catholic League (Italian) - The Papal States, Venice, England,

Aragon, Holy Roman Empire

1546-1547 Schmalkaldic War Schmalkaldic League - German Protestant States

1571 Christian-Islamic Wars Holy League - Papal States, Spain, Republic of Venice, others

1618-1648 Thirty Years' War Catholic League (German) - Bavaria, other Catholic German States Protestant Union - Protestant German States Treaty of Nonsuch - Dutch Republic, England

1688-1697 War of the Grand Alliance (Nine Years' War) League of Augsburg - The Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Austria, other German states

1701-1714 War of the Spanish Succession The Quadruple Alliance of 1718

1803-1815 Napoleonic Wars The Quadruple Alliance of 1814/15 First through Seventh Coalitions

1717 Christian-Islamic Wars Holy League - Portugal, Papal States, Republic of Venice, Malta

1815-1825 Absolutist-Liberal conflicts Holy Alliance - Russia, Prussia, Austria

The Quadruple Alliance of 1834 Triple Alliance of 1865 - Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina 1873-1878 & 1881-1887 League of the Three Emperors - Russian Empire, Austria-Hungary and German Empire 1879-1918 Dual Alliance - Austria-Hungary and German Empire 1882-1914 Triple Alliance - German Empire, AustriaHungary and Kingdom of Italy 1892-1917 Franco-Russian Alliance - French Third Republic and Russian Empire

Twentieth century

Alliances in the First World War

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 (from1916)

1914-1918 the Central Powers - Germany, Austria-Hungary,Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria

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Alliances in the Second World War

World War II 1939-1945 the Allies - United States, United Kingdom and the

Commonwealth, Soviet Union, Poland, France, Republic ofChina, many others.

1940-1945 the Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, and many others.

Alliances during the Cold War (1980)

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

1951 ANZUS Treaty (ANZUS) - United States, Australia, New Zealand. 1954-1977 SEATO - United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Thailand,

Philippines 1955-1979 CENTO - United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan 1955-1991 Warsaw Pact - Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania 1958 North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) - United States and Canada. 1971 Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) - United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia,

Singapore. 1981 ECOMOG of Economic Community of West African States. 1982 Regional Security System (RSS) - several Eastern Caribbean countries. 1989 Major non-NATO allies of the United States (MNNA) - Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain,

Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand.

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. Franco-German Brigade is a joint French-German Brigade. BALTRON is a joint EstonianLatvianLithuanian Naval Squadron. Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, originally signed in 1373, is the oldest alliance still in force in the world.

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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, Kyrgyzstanand Mongolia).

United States - Asia 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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