This book looks at the significance of alliances in the international system focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II and their implications for Germany.

Chapter 1: The significance of great/small power alliances; Chapter 2: Italy and Germany; Chapter 3: Germany and Japan during World War II: allies at a distance; Chapter 4: Hungary; Chapter 5: Romania; Chapter 6: Finland: the co-belligerent of Nazi Germany; Chapter 7: Vichy France: the occupied ally; Chapter 8: Spain: the friendly neutral; Chapter 9: Bulgaria: an ally at a distance; Chapter 10: Croatia: the vassal state; Chapter 11: Switzerland and Sweden: the armed neutrals; Chapter 12: The Islamic world and Nazi Germany; Chapter 13: Conclusion: the pitfalls of great and small power alliances

John P. Miglietta has a PhD in Political Science from New York University. He is a Professor of Political Science at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. His research and teaching interests are international relations, American foreign policy, Middle East politics, and Central Asian politics. He is the author of American Alliance Policy in the Middle East, 1945-1992 (2002) and editor of Introduction to Political Science: An Anthology (2021).