Alliances & Blocs
Alliances & Blocs is a data page on the World Powers desk of Glassbox Auditing. NATO, the EU, G7, G20, BRICS, SCO, OPEC+ and other groupings: members, join dates, and their share of world output, population, military spending and oil then and now, with UN voting alignment. Blocs coordinate sanctions, trade terms, oil output and defense spending.
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What is on this page today?
- OECD: 61% of world GDP in 2025, +0.2 pts on 2024 — 38 members today · 63% in 2015 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- NATO: 50% of world GDP in 2025, +0.3 pts on 2024 — 32 members today · 48% in 2015 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- Group of Seven: 44% of world GDP in 2025, -0.1 pts on 2024 — 7 members today · 46% in 2015 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- Quad: 35% of world GDP in 2025, -0.3 pts on 2024 — 4 members today (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- USMCA (NAFTA until 2020): 30% of world GDP in 2025, -0.4 pts on 2024 — 3 members today · 28% in 2015 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: 23% of world GDP in 2025, -0.1 pts on 2024 — 10 members today · 17% in 2015 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- European Union: 18% of world GDP in 2025, +0.5 pts on 2024 — 27 members today · 22% in 2015 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2025)
- In the 2025 UN General Assembly Israel voted closest to the U.S. of the 13 other powers with a vote: 87 on a scale from China (0) to the U.S. (100) — United Kingdom 51, France 47; the scale compares countries and years, not the absolute number (the U.S. often votes almost alone); Israel was at 95 in 2020 (UN General Assembly roll-call votes (ideal points: Bailey, Strezhnev and Voeten), 30 Dec 2025)
- BRICS: 26% of world GDP in 2024, +1.2 pts on 2023 — 10 members today · 22% in 2014 (World Bank World Development Indicators, 30 Dec 2024)
Where does the data come from?
Items on this page come from World Bank World Development Indicators; UN General Assembly roll-call votes (ideal points: Bailey, Strezhnev and Voeten). Each item links to its own source. All sources, how items are checked.
What does this page lead to?
- Oil Stress (Macro): OPEC+ sets its members' output quotas; a cut tends to raise crude prices and an increase to lower them, depending on spare capacity. (either way, depending on the cause; weeks; global scale) Source: EIA, Short-Term Energy Outlook (OPEC spare capacity, world supply and demand).
- Federal Contractors (People & Money): NATO's spending target (2% of GDP, raised to 5% by 2035 at the 2025 summit) lifts allies' defense purchases, much of it from U.S. contractors through foreign military sales. (moves the same way; years; sector scale) Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury): federal contracts, grants and loans by recipient.
- Tariffs & Government (Macro): Trade agreements within a bloc (USMCA for North America) set lower duties for members' qualifying goods, so membership changes what U.S. importers pay by partner. (either way, depending on the cause; months; economy scale) Source: USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
- Sanctions & Watchlists (Global Intelligence): Sanctions are coordinated within blocs (the G7 and EU acted together on Russia after 2022), so members' lists tend to grow together. (moves the same way; months; global scale) Source: EU Financial Sanctions Files (consolidated list).
- AI Supply Chain (AI): The U.S. coordinates chip-equipment export controls with the Netherlands and Japan, so allied alignment decides whether ASML and Tokyo Electron can ship advanced tools to China. (either way, depending on the cause; months; global scale) Source: Federal Register API.
What feeds this page?
- AI Law & Enforcement (AI): The EU AI Act applies to any firm offering AI in the EU, so EU rules reach U.S. developers; where U.S. and EU rules differ, firms carry two compliance regimes. (either way, depending on the cause; years; global scale) Source: Official texts: EUR-Lex, state legislatures, the Federal Register and national gazettes (each law links its own).
- Interest Groups (People & Money): Foreign-policy groups such as AIPAC lobby Congress on aid and arms sales to allies, and Congress's foreign-assistance votes are where that lobbying meets U.S. alliances. (either way, depending on the cause; years; global scale) Source: lda.gov Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.