Defense pact
A defense pact is a type of treaty or military alliance in which the signatories promise to support each other militarily and to defend each other.[1] In general, the signatories point out the threats in the treaty and concretely prepare to respond to it together.[2]
Current treaties
Russia
- 1992 – Collective Security Treaty – established the Collective Security Treaty Organization including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Turkey
- 2010 – Agreement on Strategic Partnership and Mutual Support between Azerbaijan and Turkey for strategic partnership and security co-operation.
United States
- 1947 – Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty) – Western Hemisphere mutual defense.
- 1949 – North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty of Washington) – establishes NATO mutual defense organization.
- 1951 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Philippines – between the Philippines and the United States.
- 1951 – ANZUS – mutual defense alliance between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
- 1951 – Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan – bilateral treaty between Japan and the United States.
- 1953 – Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea – created an alliance with South Korea.
- 1960 – Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan – mutual defense treaty with Japan.
Historical treaties
Russia
- 1955 – Warsaw Pact – between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union.
- 1881 – League of the Three Emperors – between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Russian Empire.
United Kingdom
- 1955 – Baghdad Pact – between Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
United States
- 1778 – Treaty of Alliance – between the Kingdom of France and the United States.
- 1954–1977 – Southeast Asia Treaty Organization – between Australia, France, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- 1955 – Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty – between Taiwan and the United States.
References
- Volker Krause, J. David Singer "Minor Powers, Alliances, And Armed Conflict: Some Preliminary Patterns", in "Small States and Alliances", 2001, pp 15–23, ISBN 978-3-7908-2492-6 (Print) ISBN 978-3-662-13000-1 (Online)
- Fulvio Attinà "State aggregation in defense pacts: systemic explanations", Jean Monnet Working Papers, University of Catania, nr. 56, November 2004, ISSN 2281-9029
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