Defense pact

A defense pact (or defence pact Commonwealth spelling) is a type of treaty or military alliance which the signatories promise to support each other militarily and to defend each other.[1] Generally, the signatories point out the threats and concretely prepare to respond to it together.[2]

Current treaties
Year Name Member States
Treaty name Also known as Present members Former/suspended members
1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance
1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance Rio Treaty
1949 North Atlantic Treaty
1951 Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Philippines
1951 ANZUS
1953 Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea
1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement
1960 Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan
1961 Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty
1971 Five Power Defence Arrangements
1979 Taiwan Relations Act
1992 Collective Security Treaty CSTO
2021 AUKUS
  1. Joined as Kingdom of Greece.
  2. Joined as West Germany. After reunification in 1990, the former East German territory became covered by NATO protection.

Historical treaties
Year Treaty name Member States
1788 Treaty of Alliance Kingdom of France and the United States
1881 League of the Three Emperors German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Russian Empire
1954–1977 Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Australia, France, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States
1955 Middle East Treaty Organization Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom
1955 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty China and the United States
1955 Warsaw Pact Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union

See also

References
  1. 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)
  2. 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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