Rethinking the Biden Administration's enthusiasm for new alliance structures

Looking back at the post-World War II alliances the US promoted, Stephen Walt cautions, "in today’s world, what U.S. officials like to call “alliances” or “security partnerships” are more like protectorates. In many cases, the United States has agreed to defend weak and vulnerable countries that can’t do much to help the United States no matter how much they might want to."

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