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Toward A New Cold War?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Conn Hallinan
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Military alliances are always sold as things that produce security. In practice they tend to do the opposite.

Thus, Germany formed the Triple Alliance with Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to counter the enmity of France following the Franco-Prussian War. In response, France, England and Russia formed the Triple Entente. The outcome was World War I.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 6 , June 2008 , e12
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