The arrangements of 1960 (Treaties of Guarantee, Alliance and Establishment) were heavily influenced by the British, who were driven by the perception that the partition of the island, one way or another, served best their interests.
No other alliance local operates at Merkin, but Lydia Kontos, the executive director of the Kaufman Center, said she could not agree to the language because there was no guarantee another alliance local would not set up picket lines.
The Turkish Cypriots also want the retention of the Treaties of Guarantee and Alliance that give the right of intervention in Cyprus to Turkey, Greece and Britain.
Together with their smaller allies, Pier Luigi Bersani's centre-left Democratic Party (PD) won control of the lower house, with 340 seats, after benefiting from the automatic premium, which guarantees the alliance that wins most votes 55% of the seats.
Four chilly decades and a lost war, they argue, show that hard-headed engagement with Russia, not foreign alliances, guarantees safety.
The mere mention of such foreign alliances is guaranteed to agitate the French government.
But this idea gets less convincing when it's folded into a broader claim that American military alliances and guarantees and interventions have only led to blowback and disaster in the last thirty years, and that our entire strategic approach to the Middle East has just been a long rolling hyper-bellicose fiasco ever since the Carter Doctrine.
In the words of the ancient military theorist Sun Tzu, China is acquiring the means to "win without fighting" — to establish itself as Asia's dominant power by eroding the credibility of America's security guarantees, hollowing out its alliances and eventually easing it out of the region.
So we have our national security guaranteed by the alliance.
Taliban officials agreed to the talks at Emam Sahib only when the alliance guaranteed them safe passage.
This was essentially a defensive alliance guaranteeing German and Austrian support against any attack by France, Italy's main rival in the Mediterranean.
