partnerships, coalitions, relationships, pacts, allies, partners, friendships, ties, strategic, linkages, agreements, affiliations, relations, nexuses, affinities, entente, groupings, deals, schisms, symbiosis, loyalties, blocs, modus vivendi, cooperation, footholds, hegemony, cooptation, duopoly, transnational, integrations, hierarchies, allegiances, ideologies, fiefs, mutually beneficial, strategy, networks, synergy, rapprochement, adversaries, mergers, blinken, collaboration, polities, liaisons, cento, bedfellows, joint venture, rivalries, coteries, equilibriums, seato, satraps, alignments, interactions, beachhead, narcoterrorism, empires, rapport, leadership, accords, cliques, contacts, continuities, interrelations, factions, monopolies, connections, splintering, unity, treaties, polarizations, oligarchies, platforms, revanchism, imperialism, balkanise, nonalignment, detente, democracies, strongholds, arrangement, entanglements, bridgehead, confederacies, eap, paradigms, geographies, centrism, patriarchies, divisions, niches, cira, differentiation, aristocracies, hegemon, toehold, institutionalism, bilateralism, compromises, unequals, enmities, alliance, cartels, arenas, consortia, initiatives, agencies, associations, confederations, federations, missions, organisations, organizations

alliance, containment, mitra, napoleonic wars