Klymenko Y. Military - political allied cooperation as a factor of geopolitical stabilization in Europe

The thesis is dedicated to the role of military - political allied cooperation and its institutions in stabilizing and destabilizing the international system in the XX - the first decade of XXI century, in particular on the eve of two world wars. Special attention is paid to the period of globalization, the development of events in bipolar and post-bipolar worlds as well as to the perspectives of the alliances. The author, proceeding from the institutional theory, enters into polemics with the views of supporters of conceptions of political realism, neo-realism, unilateral actions, Аd hoc coalitions. The factors are being examined, which affect the efficiency of military - political cooperation; the system of its determination criteria is being offered.