SUPERPOWERS - Alliances
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- Alliances
- Every hyper power (USA today, Britain in imperial era) needs allies for power.
- Allies can act as 'eyes and ears', spotting trouble
- Increases military assets around the world.
- Political and economic allies can project their influence on the whole world.
- USA have the strongest military alliance (mutual defence) which its emerging power challenges cannot match (China, Russia, India).
- Security alliance Japan - 3 Air Force bases.
- Military alliance South Korea - 2 Air Force bases
- NATO - (North Atlantic Treaty Org) - Canada, European countries, Turkey) - 14 Air Force bases
- ANZUS - australis, New Zealand, US.
- + 3 more.
- Between them, spend US$966 billion on their militaries in 2015 (58% of global military spending).
- Free-trade agreements also form from this.
- EU: between 28 member states
- NAFTA: USA, Mexico and Canada
- ASEAN: between 10 south-east Asian countries (Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia,
- Interdependence is created in terms of geostrategy.
- Ecnomic prosperity requires global stability (wars are bad for trade).
- Every hyper power (USA today, Britain in imperial era) needs allies for power.
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