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Define Alliance. What is the role of Alliances in power politics? Discuss the relevance of Alliance in a nuclear age.
- UPSC 1992
- Key Concepts in International Relations
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In power politics, states seek security through their own arms or by borrowing others' strength. An alliance is the formal way of borrowing it. The nuclear age asks whether that borrowing still matters once a few states hold weapons of absolute destruction.
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