The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

And of course the Soviet threat was responsible for NATO, the grand alliance of the Atlantic nations.

Ahab married Jezebel, the daughter of the King of Tyre, and the alliance was doubtless the means of procuring political support.

The new Frankish alliance was important because of the Franks ' known hostility to the Byzantine empire, providing the Lombards with more than one option.

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

It appears that he was in alliance with the Aetolians.

The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

To ensure the alliance, his son Sancho was engaged to Dulce, sister of the Count of Barcelona and Infanta of Aragon.

He was the first of its rulers to have relations with other countries ; he entered into an alliance with Hippias of Athens, and when Hippias was driven out of Athens he offered him the territory of Anthemus on the Thermaic Gulf.

Shortly afterwards, Andrew made an alliance again with Leszek I and they occupied Halych where again Andrew's son was appointed to prince.

Andrew, who was now with Saint Louis, interpreted David's message to the King, a real or pretended offer of alliance from the Mongol general Eljigidei, and a proposal of a joint attack upon the Islamic powers of Syria.

Traditionally, for the poorer citizens, local marriage was the norm while the elite had been much more likely to marry abroad as a part of aristocratic alliance building.

The year 1166 was relatively quiet, but Amalric sent envoys to the Byzantine Empire seeking an alliance and a Byzantine wife, and throughout the year had to deal with raids by Nur ad-Din, who captured Banias.

In 1168 Amalric and Manuel negotiated an alliance against Egypt, and William of Tyre was among the ambassadors sent to Constantinople to finalize the treaty.

With the withdrawal of these states, a congress was called on the holy island of Delos to institute a new alliance to continue the fight against the Persians ; hence the modern designation " Delian League ".

The Athenian politician Aristides would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying ( according to Plutarch ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new members was to be.

The Delian League was turning from an alliance into an empire.

The leader was now a conservative, had opposed the execution of the king and supported alliance with England.

The alliance was put in practice when joint forces organized an attack against Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1326.

Regarding institutional reforms, the party was a long-time supporter of presidentialism and a plurality voting system, and came to support also federalism and to fully accept the alliance with Lega Nord, although the relations with that party were tense at times, especially about issues regarding national unity.

Serbia, on its side, was not satisfied with the independence of Albania, and sought a secret alliance with Greece.

Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.

The democratic alliance was broken up, and most of its members were reincorporated into the Peloponnesian League.

* The alliance between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Tigranes II of Armenia is broken.

* 418 Battle of Mantinea, greatest land battle of war, gives Sparta victory over Argos, which broke treaty, Alcibiades thrown out, alliance broken

The Mongols were at one time allied with the Song, but this alliance was broken when the Song recaptured the former imperial capitals of Kaifeng, Luoyang and Chang ' an at the collapse of the Jin Dynasty.

However, the engagement was broken in September 1058, when her brother Emperor Henry IV concluded a peace treaty with Andrew I, King of Hungary ; as a part of the alliance, she was engaged to the Hungarian King's son and heir, Solomon.

Neither nation has ever broken the alliance ever since.

In ancient Greece, the symbolon, was a shard of pottery which was inscribed and then broken into two pieces which were given to the ambassadors from two allied city states as a record of the alliance.

However, in 1147 Nur ad-Din and Mu ' in ad-Din Unur, the governor of Damascus, made an alliance against Jerusalem, as the kingdom had already broken the treaty by allying with one of Unur's rebellious vassals.

On the Western front, the Soviet Union was withdrawing its combatant forces in Afghanistan and the United States-Pakistan alliance had broken off with the United States suspicions on nuclear weapons, in 1990.

Having achieved the Reform Act of 1832, the Radical alliance was broken until the Liberal-Labour alliance of the mid-Victorian period.

However in 219, the alliance between Liu Bei and his ally, Sun Quan, was broken when Sun sent his general Lü Meng to invade Jing Province.

The power of the Rouran was broken by an alliance of Göktürks, the Chinese Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties and tribes in Central Asia in 552.

Though they admitted the Ashina of Göktürks into their federation, the power of the Rouran was broken by an alliance of Göktürks, the Chinese Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties and tribes in Central Asia in 552.

In the former case, French subsidies would make him independent of the English Parliament ; in the latter case, his gain would be to have broken the Franco-Dutch alliance.

But after the defeat of the 1978 legislative election, the alliance with the CFDT ( who were more linked with the Socialist Party and turned right after the abandon of the " autogestion " and classes struggle ) was broken.

The working alliance between the CP and the Socialists in the UAW had broken down in 1938 over differences over the CP's support for " collective security ," an alliance of the Soviet Union with the non-fascist nations of the West against Hitler.

Was no longer functioning by the reign of Charles I of England, when compulsory attendance at Christ's Hospital was enforced, despite continued Papal adherence by locals -- this was to be broken entirely by Parliament's alliance with the Scottish Solemn League and Covenant that invaded the village.

Deputy and UCR National Committee Secretary General Margarita Stolbizer stated that the party is virtually " broken due to the stance of the leaders who support the alliance Kirchner ".

The alliance was effectively broken the next year, when vice-president Chacho Álvarez resigned amidst public intra-party accusations of bribery in the Senate, followed shortly after by other leading members.

At these elections the former reformist alliance, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ), had broken up into three parts: Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia, late Prime Minister Đinđić's Democratic Party ( now led by Boris Tadić ) and the G17 Plus group of liberal economists led by Miroljub Labus.

Since then, occasional bursts of Unix factionalism have broken out, such as the HP / SCO " 3DA " alliance in 1995, and Project Monterey in 1998, a teaming of IBM, SCO, Sequent and Intel which was followed by litigation ( SCO v. IBM ) between IBM and the new SCO, formerly Caldera.

Despite this action against Joan of Arc, Philip's alliance with England was broken in 1435 when Philip signed the Treaty of Arras ( which completely revoked the Treaty of Troyes ) and thus recognised Charles VII as king of France.