oath; pledge; pact; covenant; alliance
league; federation; union; alliance
leader (of an alliance); leading power
joining (an association, agreement, etc.); participation; affiliation; accession
alliance; aimag; league; administrative subdivision in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia
member nation; member state; signatory
blood pledge; oath signed in blood
Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923)
participating store; participating merchant; franchise store
Diet members caucus; caucus of the Diet
Satchō Alliance; 1866 alliance between the feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū
league; federation; union; alliance
offensive and defensive alliance
non-member state; non-member nation
capitulation; surrender; treaty signed under coercion
Holy Alliance (of Russia, Austria and Prussia in 1815)
member countries (e.g. treaty, UN, etc.); member states
concluding an alliance; making a pledge
non-alignment; nonalignment
association formed to carry out an objective
member state of the European Union; EU country
Confederation of the Rhine (1806-1813)
forming an alliance; conclusion of a treaty of alliance
signatory (country); party (to a treaty)
Coalition of the Willing (nations who supported America's preemptive strike in Iraq in 2003)
Christian Democratic Union (Germany); Christian Democrats; CDU
Delian League (the Athenian empire)
to swear; to vow; to take an oath; to pledge
Tripartite Pact (between Japan, Germany and Italy in WWII)
capitulation; surrender; treaty signed under coercion
labor federation; labour federation
producer-retailer alliance
(European) Economic and Monetary Union; EMU
War of the Triple Alliance (1864-1870); Paraguayan War
principle of nonalignment; nonalignment policy