POLI 244 Study Guide - Policy Of Deliberate Ambiguity
12 Dec 2012
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Alliances are very important in world politics and can greatly affect the bargaining process. Some alliances are defensive while others are offensive, offensive means to join together in attacking a state while defensive means joining together to attack a state. Symmetric vs. asymmetric: depends on how powerful countries are in the alliance, there is no doubt that the usa is the most powerful in nato. Usually countries join alliances because there is something in it for them, sometimes state align because they share a common vision or a want for a good and need each other in order to obtain it. Alliances are created to preserve what we call the balance of power that is a situation in which the military capabilities of two states or groups of states are roughly equal. When the balance of power is set, no state or block of state has clear military advantage over the other.
