Exploring Base Politics (eBook, ePUB)

How Host Countries Shape the Network of U.S. Overseas Bases
Redaktion: Kawana, Shinji; Takahashi, Minori

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, this book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases. Beyond bringing America strategic and security benefits, they influence power relations in the entire world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000258691
• Artikelnr.: 60394525

Autorenporträt

Shinji Kawana is Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, where he is affiliated with the Institute for Liberal Arts. He has a doctorate degree in international politics from Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. His research has focused on base politics, U.S. bases in Japan, and the issue of military bases in Okinawa. Among his recent publications are Base Politics: The Origins of the Post-War U.S. Overseas Bases Expansion Policy (Hakut¿ Shob¿, 2012, in Japanese) and The Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Bases 1968-1973: The Policy of Withdrawal from Mainland Japan (Keis¿ Shob¿, 2020, in Japanese). Minori Takahashi is Assistant Professor at Hokkaido University, Japan, where he is affiliated with the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center and the Arctic Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in international political economy from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include security issues and the development of living and non-living resources in the Arctic. Among his recent joint and individual publications are The Influence of Sub-state Actors on National Security: Using Military Bases to Forge Autonomy (Springer, 2019), "Autonomy and Military Bases: USAF Thule Base in Greenland as the Study Case" (Arctic Yearbook, 2019), "The Contours of the Development of Non-Living Resources in Greenland" (Polar Record, 2020), and "The Politics of Whaling and the European Union" (Senri Ethnological Studies, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Shinji Kawana and Minori Takahashi) 1: What Questions does
the Study of Military Bases Pose? (Shinji Kawana) 2: Rethinking the
Politics Surrounding the US Military Base in Greenland with a Focus on
Non-material Factors (Minori Takahashi) 3: U.S. Bases in Italy: From a Cold
War Frontier to a Hub for Power Projection (Matteo Dian) 4: Defending
NATO's Southern Flank: Spain's Democratization, the Ending of the Cold War
and the U.S. Military Presence (Shino Hateruma) 5: Domestic Environmental
Policy and Status of Forces Agreement: U.S. Military Presence and New Water
Pollution Risk in Germany (Keisuke Mori) 6: Why do Anti-Base Movements
Occur and/or Activate? An Analysis of the Turkish Case (Kohei Imai) 7:
Strategic Asset or Political Burden? U.S. Military Bases and Base Politics
in Saudi Arabia (Masaki Mizobuchi) 8: Singapore's Distinctive
"Quasi-Bases": Regional Security Environment, National Discourse, and
Path-Dependence (Kei Koga) 9: Base Politics within the Framework of the
U.S.-ROK Alliance Management Scheme (Tomonori Ishida) Conclusion (Shinji
Kawana and Minori Takahashi)