Defense pact
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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
China
- 1961: Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty – mutual defense treaty with North Korea
Russia
- 1992: Collective Security Treaty – established the Collective Security Treaty Organization that also includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
United Kingdom
- 1949: North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty of Washington) – establishes NATO mutual defense organization
- 1958: US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
- 1971: Five Power 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) – establishes Western Hemisphere mutual defense organization
- 1949: North Atlantic Treaty (Treaty of Washington) – establishes NATO mutual defense organization
- 1951: Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Philippines – mutual defense treaty with the Philippines
- 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 – mutual defense treaty with South Korea
- 1958: US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement.
- 1960: Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan – mutual defense treaty with Japan
- 2021: AUKUS – mutual defense alliance between Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States
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: Middle East Treaty Organization – 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) [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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