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This study uses artefact distribution analyses to investigate the activities that took place inside early Roman imperial military bases. Focusing especially on non-combat activities, it explores the lives of families and other support personnel who are widely assumed to have inhabited civilian settlements outside the fortification walls. Spatial analyses, in GIS-type environments, are used to develop fresh perspectives on the range of people who lived within the walls of these military establishments, the various industrial, commercial, domestic and leisure activities in which they and combat personnel were involved, and the socio-spatial organisation of these activities and these establishments. The book includes examples of both legionary fortresses and auxiliary forts from the German provinces to demonstrate that more material-cultural approaches to the artefact assemblages from these sites give greater insights into how these military communities operated and demonstrate the problems of ascribing functions to buildings without investigating the full material record

This article examines the conditions under which the United States foreign military bases become a contentious political issue in democratic base-hosting countries. Democratic consolidation, and in particular the institutionalization of the party system, reduces the incentives for political elites to mobilize domestic political support in opposition to foreign military presence. In the Spanish case, changes in the pattern of party competition explain why the basing issue was particularly contentious in domestic politics from 1981 to 1988, despite long-standing and profound public opposition to the use of the bases by the United States, and most recently in the 2003 Iraq campaign. Neither a public opinion explanation, focusing on anti-Americanism, nor a security-based explanation, focusing on the nature of bilateral security relations, can explain these same trends. The argument illuminates long-neglected important interactions in emerging democracies between party system dynamics and foreign policy positions and has important implications for determining the domestic political conditions under which overseas democratic countries will contest United States security hegemony.

Approaching Roman military communities -- Studying Roman artefacts and social practice -- Site selection and data processing -- Categorising Roman artefacts -- Veterali -- Introduction -- Activity and identity categories for specific artefacts analyses of artefact distribution -- Rottweil (Ara Flaviae) -- forts I-II -- Introduction to Rottweil -- Introduction to forts I-II -- Activity and identity categories for specific artefacts, analyses of artefact distribution -- The fort at Oberstimm -- Introduction -- Activity and identity categories for specific artefacts, analyses of artefact distribution -- The fort at Hesselbach -- Introduction -- Activity and identity categories for specific artefacts, analyses of artefact distribution -- The fort at Ellingen -- Introduction -- Activity and identity categories for specific artefacts, analyses of artefact distribution -- Intersite spatial distribution of activities and use of space -- Status and gender identity -- the roles and impact of women and children -- Concluding comments -- Appendices -- A: Accessing and use data and the data and the distribution maps -- B: Vetera I: preparation and assessment of the data -- C: Rottweil forts I and II: preparation and assessment of the data -- D: Oberstimm: preparation and assessment of the data -- E: Hesselbach: preparation and assessment of the data -- F: Ellingen: preparation and assessment of the data -- G: Drawings of artefacts

There are areas of the former military base contaminated waste war. The U.S. position is moderate in these areas clean, and no intrusion into areas of possible decontamination. For Panama, this is not enough, and demands to continue the cleanup Americans. There is a consensus in Panama to claim this cleanup. ; Existen zonas de las antiguas bases militares contaminadas de residuos bélicos. La posición de EEUU es la limpieza moderada de esas zonas, y la no intrusión en las zonas de imposible descontaminación. Para Panamá esto no es suficiente, y exige que prosigan las actividades de limpieza estadounidenses. Existe un consenso en Panamá para reclamar esta limpieza.