As a member of the Western alliance, Bulgaria is surrounded by firm U.S. allies.
If Europe is included in a missile defense system, it could lead to a renewal of the Western Alliance.
In 1982, Spain became NATO's 16th member, the first country to enter the Western alliance since West Germany in 1955.
Author and analyst Ahmed Rashid says the Taliban statement comes amid disarray in the Western alliance over policy and personnel.
But the American administration perhaps has a clearer picture than most European governments of Turkey's importance to the western alliance.
In 1982, the Western alliance was racked by a rancorous dispute between the United States and several of its European allies.
The banks that fit those criteria: Abington Bancorp, Boston Private Financial Holdings, Cardinal Financial, Encore Bancshares, Susquehanna Bancshares and Western Alliance Bancorp.
Like when he commits the Western alliance to be the world's policeman, as he does at the film's outset, without alerting his national security advisor beforehand.
At the very least, it indicates that the Bulgarian government is seriously split over the issue of its role in the Western alliance and special relationship with Moscow.
He's now chief executive of Las Vegas' Western Alliance Bancorp.
Russia needs to learn that in spite of their own enervating foreign wars and economic worries the members of the Western alliance can still unite in front of a challenge.
The US wished to quash Britain and France's residual post-war capacities to act without US support as Washington solidified its position as the unquestioned leader of the Western alliance against the Soviet Union.
The day after the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones' lawsuit could go forward, the story led most major newspapers, above the announcement by Boris Yeltsin at the NATO summit that he would no longer target nuclear missiles at the Western alliance.
And the Western Energy Alliance estimates that environmental approval for the average energy development initiative takes over seven years.
Rather than a merger of equals, it still looks to some Canadians like a takeover of the moderate Progressive Conservatives by the western-based Alliance.
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In the spring and summer of 1939, Stalin could have forged an alliance with Western democracies.
President Hosni Mubarak has been the central pillar of the alliance between Western powers and authoritarian Arab leaders and without him it may not be sustainable.
However, such activities, though useful, do not require a formal military alliance among the western powers.
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Mr Kawamura reckons the movement will come to resemble the alliance of fiefs in western Japan that helped topple the shogunate in the 1860s.
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He leads a party that emerged only in March from a hurried merger between the western-based, socially conservative Alliance (previously the Reform Party) and the eastern rump of the more centrist Progressive Conservatives.
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He is due a day later at a NATO summit split between Strasbourg and Kehl, a town in south-western Germany, that will mark the alliance's 60th anniversary.
There's more to the plot, of course, in a movie that celebrates wild mustangs as the spirit of the Old West. ("Spirit" is, among other things, an exciting Western.) There's an alliance between the stallion and a young Lakota brave named Little Creek.
He is an active member of the Alliance Partnership of the Conference of Western Attorneys General, in which attorneys general across the United States partner with their colleagues in Mexico to strengthen the legal systems of both countries and reduce crime.
Japanese policymakers entered this alliance because they recognised earlier than their western counterparts how radically the map of world power was likely to be redrawn in the 21st century.
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The efficiency of trans-European rail travel will be further boosted following the formation of Railteam, an alliance of high-speed rail operators across western Europe.
The Alliance represents an effort to broaden the political base of the western Reform party by wooing eastern Progressive Conservatives.
In Western Europe, however, fear of domination has made local firms wary of an alliance with the American behemoth.
That sentiment is echoed by Helen Zille - the premier of the Western Cape province and head of South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance.
As Kabul fell to the Northern Alliance forces, he was the first CNN correspondent, and one of the first Western reporters, to arrive in the city, entering the Afghan capital on foot.
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