An alliance is an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.

See also military alliance and business alliance.

Contents 1 Examples of alliances 1.1 International relations 1.2 Political organizations 1.3 Television, film, and comic books 1.4 Video games

[edit] Examples of alliances

[edit] International relations

In international relations, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, signed in 1373 between the Kingdom of England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal, is the oldest alliance in the world which is still in force.

• Holy Alliance, coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815
• Quadruple Alliance
• Triple Alliance
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty
• United Kingdom – United States relations, widely accepted as the world's most powerful alliance

[edit] Political organizations

• Alberta Alliance Party, a small right-wing political party in Alberta, Canada that existed from 2002 until merging to form the Wildrose Alliance Party in 2008 (see below)
• Social Democratic Alliance, political party in Iceland
• Alliance (New Zealand political party), left-wing political party in New Zealand politics
• Alliance 90, an alliance of 3 opposition groups in East Germany
• Alliance for Chile, a political coalition that includes Chiles two rightwing parties RN and UDI
• Alliance for Sweden, an electoral and governing (since September 2006) political coalition between the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and Christian Democrats
• Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, political party operating in Northern Ireland
• Canadian Alliance, Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003
• Fijian Alliance, a former political party in Fiji
• International Alliance of Socialist Democracy, an organization founded by Mikhail Bakunin
• Melanesian Alliance Party, a political party in Papua New Guinea
• People's Alliance for Democracy, a long-term protest movement in Thailand which is opposed to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his supporters
• ProLife Alliance, a political party in the United Kingdom
• SDP-Liberal Alliance, electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom that operated from 1981 to 1988
• The Alliance Party (Malaya), the predecessor of the Barisan Nasional political coalition in Malaysia
• The Alliance (Hong Kong), political group in Hong Kong
• Tongmenghui (or "Revolutionary Alliance"), a Chinese underground resistance movement which operated in Japan from 1905 to 1950
• United Iraqi Alliance, a political coalition in Iraq
• United People Alliance, electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party or PCP and the Portuguese Democratic Movement or MDP
• National Alliance (disambiguation), several political parties
• National Democratic Alliance, several political parties
• New Alliance Party (disambiguation), several political parties
• Wildrose Alliance Party, a small right-wing political party in Alberta, Canada

[edit] Television, film, and comic books

• Alliance of Twelve from the Alias TV series
• Alliance (DC Comics), an organization of alien freedom fighters from the pages of DC Comics
• Anglo-Sino Alliance, powerful government and law-enforcement organization that controls a large sector of colonized "core planets" in the Firefly television series
• Earth Alliance (Babylon 5), fictional alliance of the countries of Earth in the television series Babylon 5
• Earth Alliance (Gundam), a military alliance that controls most of the Earth in the Japanese anime TV series Gundam Seed
• Ferengi Alliance, fictional extraterrestrial race from the Star Trek universe
• Rebel Alliance, interstellar political resistance force formed in direct military opposition to the Galactic Empire in the fictional Star Wars universe
• United Alliance of Evil from the Power Rangers TV series
• The Alliance (The Office episode), an episode of the television series The Office
• The Alliance (professional wrestling), professional wrestling faction which ostensibly consisted of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling
• Alliance to End Hulkamania, professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling

[edit] Video games

• The Alliance, a military, cultural, and economic alliance between Humans, Night Elves, Gnomes, Dwarves and Draenei in the MMORPG World of Warcraft made by Blizzard Entertainment
• The Alliance of Order (Warhammer), an alliance of Humans, Elves and Dwarves to counter the Forces of Destruction