LEADER 04173nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910781072203321 005 20220927193032.0 010 $a1-282-53161-1 010 $a9786612531613 010 $a1-4008-3560-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400835607 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007420 035 $a(EBL)485785 035 $a(OCoLC)593340678 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223791 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287867 035 $a(PQKB)10888203 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36522 035 $a(DE-B1597)446596 035 $a(OCoLC)979954320 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400835607 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485785 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367233 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253161 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485785 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007420 100 $a20070607d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmbattled garrisons $ecomparative base politics and American globalism /$fKent E. Calder 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 1 $a0-691-13143-0 311 1 $a0-691-13463-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [295]-307) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tList of Tables --$tForeword --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. The Heritage of History --$tChapter Two. Deepening Vulnerability --$tChapter Three. Base Politics --$tChapter Four. The Nature of the Contest --$tChapter Five. The Base-Politics Environment --$tChapter Six. Base Politics Deconstructed --$tChapter Seven. Base-Politics Management --$tChapter Eight. The Financial Equations --$tChapter Nine. Bases and American Strategy --$tChapter Ten. Implications For Policy and Theory --$tAppendix. Base Politics Paradigms: Specific Cases through 2006 --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe overseas basing of troops has been a central pillar of American military strategy since World War II--and a controversial one. Are these bases truly essential to protecting the United States at home and securing its interests abroad--for example in the Middle East-or do they needlessly provoke anti-Americanism and entangle us in the domestic woes of host countries? Embattled Garrisons takes up this question and examines the strategic, political, and social forces that will determine the future of American overseas basing in key regions around the world. Kent Calder traces the history of overseas bases from their beginnings in World War II through the cold war to the present day, comparing the different challenges the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union have confronted. Providing the broad historical and comparative context needed to understand what is at stake in overseas basing, Calder gives detailed case studies of American bases in Japan, Italy, Turkey, the Philippines, Spain, South Korea, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He highlights the vulnerability of American bases to political shifts in their host nations--in emerging democracies especially--but finds that an American presence can generally be tolerated when identified with political liberation rather than imperial succession. Embattled Garrisons shows how the origins of basing relationships crucially shape long-term prospects for success, and it offers a means to assess America's prospects for a sustained global presence in the future. 606 $aMilitary bases, American$zForeign countries 606 $aMilitary bases, American$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aMilitary bases, American 615 0$aMilitary bases, American$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a355.7 700 $aCalder$b Kent E$0631719 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781072203321 996 $aEmbattled garrisons$93740689 997 $aUNINA