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An alliance is an agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests.

In politics it may refer to:

• Alliance for the planet (L’Alliance pour la planète) [1] (French)
• Alberta Alliance Party, right wing political party in Alberta, Canada
• Alliance, the former name of the Barisan Nasional in Malaysia
• Alliance (Iceland), political party in Iceland
• Alliance (New Zealand political party), left-wing political party in New Zealand politics
• Alliance 90, an alliance of 3 opposition groups in East Germany
• Alliance for Chile, a political coalition that includes Chiles two rightwing partyes RN and UDI
• Alliance for Sweden, an electoral and governing (since September 2006) political coalition between the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberal People's Party and Christian Democrats
• Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, political party operating in Northern Ireland
• Canadian Alliance, Canadian right-of-centre conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003
• Fijian Alliance, a former political party in Fiji
• Melanesian Alliance Party, a political party in Papua New Guinea
• People's Alliance Party, a political party in the Solomon Islands
• ProLife Alliance, a political party in the United Kingdom
• Revolutionary Alliance, an underground resistance movement in Japan from 1905 to 1912
• SDP-Liberal Alliance, electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party in the United Kingdom that operated from 1981 to 1988
• The Alliance (Hong Kong), political group in Hong Kong
• United Iraqi Alliance, a political coalition in Iraq
• United People Alliance, electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party or PCP and the Portuguese Democratic Movement or MDP
• The Alliance, the predecessor of the Barisan Nasional political coalition in Malaysia.
• several political parties named National Alliance
• several political parties named National Democratic Alliance
• several political parties named New Alliance Party

In business it may refer to:

• Alliance, a marketing company controlled by WPP
• Alliance Air, a low-cost carrier based in Delhi, India
• Alliance Airlines, a charter airline based in Brisbane, Australia
• Alliance Air, an airline based in Kampala, Uganda
• Alliance Atlantis, a Toronto-based media company
• Alliance Entertainment, an independent distributor of music, movies, and game software
• Alliance Records, a record label
• Alliance Semiconductor, an electronic chip maker in Santa Clara, California
• Alliance & Leicester, a British bank
• The Alliance, an American publication of the 1870s
• Business alliance, an agreement between businesses

In geography it may refer to:

• Alliance, Alberta
• Alliance, Nebraska
• Alliance, North Carolina
• Alliance, Ohio
• Alliance Township, Minnesota

As a surname it may refer to:

• David Alliance, Baron Alliance, a British businessman and Liberal Democrat politician

In fiction it may refer to:

• Alliance (Star Fleet Universe), a group in the Star Fleet Universe in the General War era
• Anglo-Sino Alliance, powerful government and law-enforcement organization that controls a large sector of colonized "core planets" in the Firefly television series
• Earth Alliance (Gundam), a military alliance that controls most of the Earth in the Japanese anime TV series Gundam Seed
• Earth Alliance (Babylon 5), fictional alliance of the countries of Earth in the television series Babylon 5
• Ferengi Alliance, fictional extraterrestrial race from the Star Trek universe
• Rebel Alliance, interstellar political resistance force formed in direct military opposition to the Galactic Empire in the fictional Star Wars universe
• The Alliance (Warcraft), a faction in the Warcraft Universe comprised of the Humans, Night Elves, Dwarves, Draenei and Gnomes
• United Alliance of Evil from the Power Rangers TV series.
• Alliance of Twelve from the Alias TV series

In other fields it may refer to:

• Alliance (Bible), Torah event
• Christian and Missionary Alliance, an evangelical Christian denomination
• The Alliance, professional wrestling faction which ostensibly consisted of World Championship Wrestling and Extreme Championship Wrestling
• The Alliance, a group of Dancehall deejays
• The Alliance (The Office episode), an episode of the television series The Office
• Alliance To End Hulkamania, professional wrestling stable in World Championship Wrestling
• In taxonomy, a division between subtribe and genus
• Military alliance, an agreement between two, or more, countries
• Alliance, a computer program that provides a private and secure environment to share files and communicate with people you know

See also:

• Alliances
• Confederacy (disambiguation)
• Northern Alliance