Abstract
<p>The international alliances, with their military, political, security and economic types, are seeking to achieve the goals of the concerned parties. Therefore, small states more than other states in dire need to these alliances where they seek through them to achieve their security, stability and protecting their existence, because of composition and limited capacity. However, these international alliances has many cost. The cleared ones and the undeclared cost, which is dependency for great countries allied with them. These alliances forcing small states to be satellite states, living in the shadow of the power countries to achieve their goals.</p>This study seeks to know the nature of the relationship between the small and the great countries in their alliances by following the political behavior of them under these alliances. The state of Kuwait will be the case study. It’s a typical case of small state which has alliances with great powers.
Highlights
Small states seek, by virtue of its composition and limited Capacity, to the international alliances in order to fill the gap from which they suffer
It does not mean that this alliances do not have conditions and obligations for the small state which it may incompatible with its foreign policy
The second point concerning the states entered into alliances in order to reduce the power and influence of its enemies, we find that such point applies fully to small countries that enter into alliances with great powers in order to protect it from its enemies, and what drives the small states of these alliances is the national interest, which find that the alliances value and it will result in much better than staying under threat of potential enemies
Summary
By virtue of its composition and limited Capacity, to the international alliances in order to fill the gap from which they suffer. Small states in dire need to these alliances where they seek through them, to achieve their security and stability and protecting their existence. Despite the importance of this option for small states, its effectiveness depends on two factors: first, the importance of the international party that small states resort with in the alliance. This importance appears through its ranking among the world powers. Kuwait represents a typical case of this study, it is a small country exposed continuously to threats because of its strategic geographical location in the center of the Middle East, as well as due to the possession of large quantities of oil, which makes it forced to alliances with great countries in order to protect it.
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