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Warsaw Pact
Summary of Warsaw Pact
An Eastern European military alliance formed as the Warsaw Treaty Organization by a treaty concluded in Poland in 1945. Membership consists of the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, German Democratic Republic, and Bulgaria. Albania formally resigned from the group in 1968 after a six-year hiatus in participation. The group is effectively controlled by the Soviet Union, and headquarters are in Moscow.
The ostensible purpose of the pact is to provide for an orchestrated military response to aggression from North Atlantic Treaty Organization members. The alliance provides a legal basis for the maintenance of Soviet military forces in the six satellite nations, thereby permitting significant Soviet leverage in local affairs.
(Main Author: William J. Miller)
Warsaw Pact
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on warsaw pact explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
Warsaw Pact and Europe
There is an entry on warsaw pact in the European legal encyclopedia.
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See Also
Further Reading
- Entry “Warsaw Pact” in the work “A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein”, by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
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Further Reading
- The entry “warsaw pact” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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