The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during
Some of the most brutal and long-lasting civil wars of our time involve the rapid formation and disintegration of alliances among warring groups, as well as fra
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Is America’s alliance system so quietly effective that politicians and voters fail to appreciate its importance in delivering the security they take for grant
From the dawn of the atomic age to today, nuclear weapons have been central to the internal dynamics of US alliances in Europe and Asia. But nuclear weapons coo