political alliance
Parties joining forces
A political alliance is a formal or informal agreement between parties, factions, or nations to cooperate toward shared goals.
Alliances form when groups with overlapping interests gain advantage by working together: The two parties formed a political alliance to defeat the incumbent.
Such arrangements range from temporary electoral coalitions to long-standing partnerships shaping governance or foreign policy.
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- caucusParty selection meeting
- blocAllied group sharing interests
- united frontCoalition presenting as one
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
voting bloc · pact · joint venture · common cause · union · federation · consortium · ad hoc committee · contingency plan · entente · bipartisan · crossing the aisle · big tent · power sharing · axis · détente · strange bedfellows · marriage of convenience
- alliancesally, coalition, Triple Entente, mutual defense, pact
- First TriumvirateJulius Caesar, Pompey, Caesar, triumvir, secret pact
- Roman patronagepatron, client, freedman, benefactor, sponsor
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
- party politicsparty, parties, party member, party system, party affiliation
political alliancepolitical rivalry
Contest between opposing factions
political opposition · political conflict · enmity · hostility · antagonism
political alliancedissolution
Breaking up completely
schism · fragmentation · defection · party split · breakup
political allianceisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
political independence · unilateralism · political neutrality · non-alignment · going it alone
political, alliance, politic, politics, politician, politicians, politically, politicize, politicized