POL208Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Metar, Gulf War, The Dilemma
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Pol208 frieden, lake, & shultz chapter 5: international institutions and war. Alliances: why promise to fight someone else"s war. Alliances: institutions that help their members cooperate militarily in the event of a war. Offensive alliance is an agreement by which states pledge to join one another in attacking a third state. Specified the nature of soviet-german military cooperation. Defensive alliance: states pledge to come to one another"s defense in the and how the spoils of conquest would be divided event that either is attacked. Ex: british and french pledge to poland in wwii. May be open-ended, in the sense that allies pledge to defend each other against any and all attackers, or they may be targeted only at speci c countries. U. s. currently has defensive alliances with a number of countries: South korea, japan, and through the north atlantic treaty. Organization (nato) canada and many states in western and central europe.
