Exploring Base Politics
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Author |
: Shinji Kawana |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2020-11-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000258639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000258637 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exploring Base Politics by : Shinji Kawana
This book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases, comparing several countries across different regions. Analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, the contributors paint a detailed and complex picture of the role and impact of US bases. In times of war they project military power, and in times of peace they deter the emergence of general and latent threats. Furthermore, they are used to secure access to resources, and as a means of politically and economically influencing small and mid-size countries. From the viewpoint of the countries that host them, military bases allow the host many benefits of the US security umbrella, but can cause internal problems, including accidents and noise pollution that accompany the functioning of a base, as well as constraining their own sovereignty. Military bases do not simply serve to bring America strategic and security benefits - as symbols of the hierarchical structure of the international system, they influence power relations in the entire world. An invaluable resource for scholars of International Relations with an interest in the practical and theoretical challenges of the US’s relationship with its allies.
Author |
: Alexander Cooley |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2012-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801458477 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801458471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Base Politics by : Alexander Cooley
According to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States officially maintains 860 overseas military installations and another 115 on noncontinental U.S. territories. Over the last fifteen years the Department of Defense has been moving from a few large-footprint bases to smaller and much more numerous bases across the globe. This so-called lily-pad strategy, designed to allow high-speed reactions to military emergencies anywhere in the world, has provoked significant debate in military circles and sometimes-fierce contention within the polity of the host countries. In Base Politics, Alexander Cooley examines how domestic politics in different host countries, especially in periods of democratic transition, affect the status of U.S. bases and the degree to which the U.S. military has become a part of their local and national landscapes. Drawing on exhaustive field research in different host nations across East Asia and Southern Europe, as well as the new postcommunist base hosts in the Black Sea and Central Asia, Cooley offers an original and provocative account of how and why politicians in host countries contest or accept the presence of the U.S. military on their territory. Overseas bases, Cooley shows, are not merely installations that serve a military purpose. For host governments and citizens, U.S. bases are also concrete institutions and embodiments of U.S. power, identity, and diplomacy. Analyzing the degree to which overseas bases become enmeshed in local political agendas and interests, Base Politics will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the extent-and limits-of America's overseas military influence.
Author |
: Kent E. Calder |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015073869466 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embattled Garrisons by : Kent E. Calder
"Overseas bases often fill important military roles, not only in the Middle East, but around the world, yet they are increasingly difficult to sustain politically. How and where to best keep them are issues of crucial importance for policy ... This book uses multiple analytical challenges to develop and test falsifiable generalizations about why military bases come and go, employ the more viable ones in probabilistic fashion to provide a prognosis for existing and anticipated basing configurations, and suggests prescriptions for future policy on the basis of past historical experience"--Introduction.
Author |
: Sebastian E. Bitar |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2016-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137539274 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137539275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis US Military Bases, Quasi-bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America by : Sebastian E. Bitar
This book explores domestic opposition to formal US military bases in Latin America, and provides evidence of a growing network of informal and secretive base-like arrangements that supports US military operations in the Latin American Region.
Author |
: Robert E. Harkavy |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2013-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781483145204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1483145204 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Great Power Competition for Overseas Bases by : Robert E. Harkavy
Great Power Competition for Overseas Bases: The Geopolitics of Access Diplomacy explores the geopolitics of the major powers' overseas basing systems in relation to global strategies and changes in the international system in three fairly distinct phases: the interwar, early postwar, and recent postwar periods. This book links the great powers' competition for overseas bases to several streams of more or less contemporary international relations theory. This monograph consists of seven chapters and opens with an introduction to the diplomacy of basing access, followed by a discussion on the different types or purposes of basing access as they have evolved over the past several decades in response to changes in diplomacy and military technology. The major powers' overseas basing-access networks in the consecutive interwar, early postwar, and recent postwar periods are then reviewed, along with the earlier corpus of geopolitical theory, specifically as it relates to basing diplomacy. Emphasis is on the conflicting assumptions about what reciprocal strategic advantages and disadvantages inhere to the geographic positions of the United States and USSR. The final chapter considers a number of ""functional"" areas of world politics that are closely intertwined with basing diplomacy, and relates the competition for facilities to raw materials access, surrogate wars, strategic deterrence, arms control, balances of payments, arms sales and aid, alliances, and other such staple concerns of international relations. This book will be of interest to political scientists, military and government officials, diplomats, and policymakers.
Author |
: Sebastian Bitar |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1376910546 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quasi-Bases by : Sebastian Bitar
This paper explores the phenomenon of US quasi-bases in Latin America, which are semi-formal agreements that grant the US military tacit access to local military bases without a formal lease. While the importance of formal US bases in the region has dramatically decreased, a network of quasi-bases provides critical support for US antidrug operations from Central to South America. The paper builds on Alexander Cooley's theory of base politics (2008) to explain why formal bases are more difficult to open and maintain as democracy expands in the region, and categorizes previously unstudied quasi-base arrangements. Democratic expansion affects foreign military bases in three ways. Formal base negotiations are likely to succeed if the benefits of hosting foreign bases are not only perceived by the local government but also by the opposition. Conversely, when the benefits are concentrated in the government and its clients, excluded political groups are likely to oppose the base. The electoral strength of the opposition and the existence of institutional mechanisms autonomous of the government increase the chances that the opposition will succeed in blocking the base negotiations. However, when formal basing agreements fail, or when the type of operations requires secrecy and informality, interested governments may still negotiate alternative arrangements, such as quasi-bases, which are more difficult for the opposition to contest.
Author |
: Charles J. Holden |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2019-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813943275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813943272 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Republican Populist by : Charles J. Holden
Typically a maligned figure in American political history, former vice president Spiro T. Agnew is often overlooked. Although he is largely remembered for his alliterative speeches, attacks on the media and East Coast intellectuals, and his resignation from office in 1973 in the wake of tax evasion charges, Agnew had a significant impact on the modern Republican Party that is underappreciated. It is impossible, in fact, to understand the current internal struggles of the Republican Party without understanding this populist "everyman" and prototypical middle-class striver who was one of the first proponents of what would become the ideology of Donald Trump’s GOP. Republican Populist examines Agnew’s efforts to make the Republican Party representative of the "silent majority." Under the tutelage of a group of talented speechwriters assigned to Agnew by President Richard Nixon including Pat Buchanan and William Safire, Agnew crafted the populist-tinged, anti-establishment rhetoric that helped turn the Republican Party into a powerful national electoral force that has come to define American politics into the current era. A fascinating political portrait of Agnew from his pre–vice presidential career through his scandal-driven fall from office and beyond, this book is a revelatory examination of Agnew’s role as one of the founding fathers of the modern Republican Party and of the link between Agnew’s "people’s party" and the fraught party of populists and businessmen today.
Author |
: David Vine |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2015-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627791694 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627791698 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Base Nation by : David Vine
American military bases encircle the globe; from Italy to the Indian Ocean, from Japan to Honduras. The far-reaching story of the perils of the U. S. military bases and what these bases say about America today.
Author |
: Allan J. Cigler |
Publisher |
: C Q Press College |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1568026749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781568026749 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interest Group Politics by : Allan J. Cigler
Reversing the conventional approach of exploring politics through an interest group-base theory, US political scientists incorporate interest groups into broader perspectives of American politics. They look at group organization, groups in the electoral and policymaking processes, and assessments. T
Author |
: Cynthia Enloe |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 491 |
Release |
: 2014-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520957282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520957288 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bananas, Beaches and Bases by : Cynthia Enloe
In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events—Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns—to reveal the crucial role of women in international politics today. With all new and updated chapters, Enloe describes how many women's seemingly personal strategies—in their marriages, in their housework, in their coping with ideals of beauty—are, in reality, the stuff of global politics. Enloe offers a feminist gender analysis of the global politics of both masculinities and femininities, dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system, and reveals that system to be much more fragile and open to change than we think.