Defense pact
A Defense pact is a type of treaty or military alliance where the signatories promise to support each other militarily, 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 Collective Security Treaty Organisation including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Turkey
- 2010 - The Agreement on Strategic Partnership and Mutual Support between Azerbaijan and Turkey for strategic partnership and security co-operation.
United States
See also: List of United States treaties
- 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 (U.S.–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.
- 1954-1977 – Southeast Asia Treaty Organization – between Australia, France, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- 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 Russia.
- 1881 – Dreikaiserbund – between Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Russia.
United Kingdom
- 1955 – Baghdad Pact – between Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
United States
- 1955 – Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty – between Taiwan and the United States.
See also
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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