Defense pact
A defense pact (or defence pact in Commonwealth spelling) 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.
United Kingdom[]
- 1949 – North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty of Washington) – establishes NATO mutual defense organization.
- Five Powers Defence Arrangements
- 2021 - AUKUS - mutual defense alliance between Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States.
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.
- 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.
- 1979 – Taiwan Relations Act – non-mutual pact between Taiwan and the United States for the defense of Taiwan and Penghu Islands as well as arms sales.
- 2021 - AUKUS - mutual defense alliance between Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States.
European Union[]
- 2009 – Lisbon Treaty establishes mutual defence clause (article 42.7 Lisbon Treaty)
Historical treaties[]
Russia[]
- 1881 – League of the Three Emperors – between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Russian Empire.
- 1955 – Warsaw Pact – between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the Soviet Union.
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 China 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) [1]
- ^ Fulvio Attinà "State aggregation in defense pacts: systemic explanations", Jean Monnet Working Papers, University of Catania, nr. 56, November 2004, ISSN 2281-9029 [2]
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