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Armed guests: territorial sovereignty and foreign military basing (2020)
in: Oxford scholarship online
Abstract
In the years around the Second World War, policymakers in the US & Western Europe faced security challenges occasioned by the development of new technologies & the emergence of transnational ideological conflict. In coming to terms with these challenges, they developed the historically novel practice in which a state might maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory of another sovereign state without the subjugation of the latter. Such arrangements between substantive equals were previously unthinkable: under the inherited understanding of sovereignty, in which there was a tight linkage between military presence & territorial authority, such military presences could be understood only in terms of occupation or annexation. This text applies concepts derived from pragmatist thought to a historical study of the relations between the US & its wartime allies to explain the origin of this phenomenon.
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Keywords
Military bases, American, Military bases, Foreign, National security, History, Political aspects
Languages
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
Pages
312