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Shinji (Hrsg.) Kawana

Exploring Base Politics

How Host Countries Shape the Network of U.S. Overseas Bases

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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 countri… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Takahashi, Minori (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-00-025869-1
  • EAN: 9781000258691
  • Produktnummer: 34320410
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 976 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


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 (Hakuto Shobo, 2012, in Japanese) and The Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Bases 1968-1973: The Policy of Withdrawal from Mainland Japan (Keiso Shobo, 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).

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