Suchergebnisse

Introduction / Shinji Kawana and Minori Takahashi -- What questions does the study of military bases pose? / Shinji Kawana -- Rethinking the politics surrounding the US military base in Greenland with a focus on non-material factors / Minori Takahashi -- U.S. bases in Italy : from a Cold War frontier to a hub for power projection / Matteo Dian -- Defending NATO's southern flank : Spain's democratization, the ending of the Cold War and the U.S. military presence / Shino Hateruma -- Domestic environmental policy and status of forces agreement : U.S. military presence and new water pollution risk in Germany / Keisuke Mori -- Why do anti-base movements occur and/or activate? An analysis of the Turkish case / Kohei Imai -- Strategic asset or political burden? U.S. military bases and base politics in Saudi Arabia / Masaki Mizobuchi -- Singapore's distinctive "quasi-bases" : regional security environment, national discourse, and path-dependence / Kei Koga -- Base politics within the framework of the U.S.-ROK alliance management scheme / Tomonori Ishida -- Conclusion / Shinji Kawana and Minori Takahashi.

Thulebasen er en strategisk vigtig amerikansk base med flere funktioner. Ikke kun for USA og Danmark, men også for Grønland – basens vært – der har status som medunderskriver af aftalen, som garanterer basens eksistens. Hvordan fik Grønland en sådan status inden for national sikkerhed, der ellers traditionelt betragtes som udelukkende et statsanliggende? I denne artikel diskuterer vi etablerede teorier og forklaringer af basepolitik, baseret på henholdsvis realismens fokus på magtforhold og sikkerhedstrusler og socialkonstruktivismens opmærksomhed på historisk og social genealogi af billeder og identitet i internationale relationer. Ved at nærlæse danske folketingsdebatter og lovtekster foreslår vi imidlertid, at det politiske klima og konventioner også udgør vigtige faktorer, som er vigtige at inkludere sammen med magt og billeder.

How we define border studies is transforming from focussing on "a line in the sand" to the more complex notions of how constituting a border is practiced, sustained and modified. In the expansion of borders studies, the areas explored across Europe and Asia have been numerous, but the specific themes that arise through comparative case studies are novel when approach Europe and Asian borderlands. Comparing the border experiences in East Asia and Europe in a number of thematic clusters ranging from economics, tourism, and food production to ethnicity, migration and conquest, Borders in East and West aims to decenter border studies from its current focus on the Americas and Europe