Talk:Quasi alliance

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Improvements to article

I intend on making several adjustments to the article.

- The definition will be improved to incorporate the broader variety of quasi-alliances; particularly, to include that a quasi alliance is a 'permanent or ad hoc informal security cooperation arrangement, based not on formal collective defense pacts, but on tacit agreements between two or among more international regimes' (Sun, 2009; 68). The current definition bases the alliance solely on the relation a third stronger power.

- A historical section will be added to the article. This section will include notable developments and examples of historical and contemporary quasi-alliances for a better understand of the topic. These examples will include, but may not be exclusively limited to, Syria-Iran, Greece-Israel and Australia-Japan. This will strengthen the currently singular example and provide greater insight to the formation of quasi-alliances opposed to only having alliance hindrances explained through historical animosity.

- A theory section will be added to the article. This section will explain the realist origins of quasi-alliances and the theoretical alignment that these form of alliances have. These will be backed by academic sources, like Sun, and hyper-linked relatively to other articles; like Realism. This will also explore why the alliances exist and exist rather than formal means of alliances.

Mlnglng (talk) 12:37, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]