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The alliance and the Pacific balance of power

Britain and Japan regarded their combined regional and global strength as a stabilizing Pacific arrangement.

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Question

How much did the Anglo-Japanese alliance stabilize the Pacific balance of power?

Short answer

It stabilized the balance from British and Japanese perspectives by combining an organized local power with the largest global power.

Notes

Japan supplied an organized and centralized regional power while Britain supplied global strength. Their alliance therefore formed a dominant Pacific bloc. From their perspective, that concentration of power stabilized the regional balance. Ending the arrangement replaced the dominant bloc with competing powers.