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ResumenA raíz de los Pactos de Madrid de 1953 se construyeron en España diversas bases militares llevadas a cabo por personal español y estadounidense. En la elaboración de los proyectos de edificación se utilizaron los manuales de diseño desarrollados por el Ejército americano. Fue una de las primeras veces en las que, en nuestro país, se dibujaban los planos a partir de catálogos constructivos. Los estudios de arquitectura, las empresas de ingeniería y las constructoras españolas debieron adaptarse a un sistema diferente al habitual y aprender los métodos norteamericanos de representación.Los planos estadounidenses contaban con un nivel de precisión elevado, utilizaban códigos propios, complejos sistemas de verificación de lo dibujado, una simbología, un grosor de línea y una definición de materiales también propios, y además contaban con la dificultad añadida de que todos los textos debían estar escritos en inglés y español.El presente artículo ofrece unas referencias objetivas, referidas a un proceso de cambio metodológico, que puedan contribuir al análisis de la relación existente entre la arquitectura realizada y el método según el cual esta ha sido previamente representada. Se pretende poner de relieve las repercusiones que aquella cooperación con los norteamericanos tuvo sobre la dinámica de cambio de metodologías de trabajo, en particular sobre los métodos de representación gráfica de los planos, de los estudios de arquitectura españoles involucrados.

BAYLIS DISCUSSES THE HISTORY, THE STATUS, AND THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN POINTS OF VIEW OF AMERICAN AIRCRAFT AND MISSILE BASES ON BRITISH TERRITORY AS WELL AS THE CAPACITY AND AUTHORITY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE USES TO WHICH THE U.S. WISHES TO PUT THOSE FORCES.

This book, written by two Filipino political scientists and activists, tries to delegitimize the presence of U.S. military personal and U.S. military-bases on the islands. Its first part gives reasons for the necessity of the Americans to go by pointing at Philippine territorial sovereignty and the world-wide disarmament process. The following chapters work out a conception of converting the military bases into economically interesting factors in the relations between the two countries. (DÜI-Sbt)

The 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. --From publisher's description

• Opsomming: Tans is Fort England in Grahamstad 'n sielsieke-inrigting. Dit het oorspronklik bekend gestaan as die East Barracks en was die brandpunt van die vroegste nedersetting op die Kaapse Oosgrens. Fort England was trouens die bakermat en vesting van die militêre eenheid wat later die Cape Mounted Rifles geword het. Ofskoon dit in werklikheid sIegs as barakke gedien het, is die naam Fort England in 1832 aan hierdie kompleks gegee. Die 'fort' was vir 'n halfeeu die militêre hoofkwartier op die Oosgrens, behalwe vir 'n kort rukkie toe die hoofkwartier na King William's Town verskuif is. Fort England het tot 1870 – toe die Imperiale troepe onttrek is – 'n belangrike bydrae gelewer ten opsigte van die militêre verdediging en die mediese, maatskaplike en burgerlike ontwikkeling van Grahamstad. ; • Summary: Fort England, today a mental institution in Grahamstown, was originally known as the East Barracks. It was a focal point of the infant settlement of the unit which evolved into the Cape Mounted Rifles. Though it never became more than a barracks in effect, its name was changed to Fort England in 1832. For fifty years the 'fort' served as the military headquarters of the Eastern Frontier (except for a brief spell when the headquarters was at King William's Town). It was closely integrated not only with military defence, but with the medical, social, and civic development of Grahamstown, until the Imperial troops withdrew in 1870.

This paper summarizes the main items discussed on the symposium on "Legal Issues Concerning the U.S. Military Bases" in April 1988. The legal issues especially are: jurisdiction over criminal acts committed by American officials and servicemen; exploitation, preservation and conservation of the natural resources in the baselands; taxes; increased salaries for the Filipino employees, laborers and workers, etc. (DÜI-Sbt)

In The Particularistic President we challenge the dominant paradigm asserting presidential universalism. Instead, we argue that presidents possess strong electoral and partisan incentives to pursue policies that prioritize the needs of some Americans over those of others. In this article, we review our larger argument and expand upon our analyses of two policy areas where presidents have unilateral authority over distributive outcomes: natural disaster declarations and military base closures. In the former, we find strong evidence that President Barack Obama favored both swing and core states in the 2012 election year. In the latter, we find evidence of both electoral and partisan particularism.