Exploring Base Politics
Exploring Base Politics 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…
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Exploring Base Politics
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. Furthermore, they are used to secure access to resources, and as a means of politically and economically influencing small and mid-size countries. In times of war they project military power, and in times of peace they deter the emergence of general and latent threats.
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