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At the Environment Council of Luxembourg on 5 June 2008, the European Union (EU) stated its common position in support of maintaining the moratorium on whaling/protection of whales. The present paper tries to present an overview of political relations between the EU, its member state Denmark and Denmark's dominion Greenland while exploring the 'regulatory empire' concept with regard to whaling activities. In this respect, if we were to define the methodological approach of this paper in a single phrase, we could use the expression: "conceptual redefinition of the physical substance". This approach enables us to theoretically explain the uncertainty that accompanies the act of the subject, and to make visible structural elements that have not been noticed so far. 2008年6月5日、EUはルクセンブルクにおいて環境相理事会を開き、EUの共通理念として捕鯨をめぐるEUのスタンスを初めて「反捕鯨」とすることで一致した。本稿は、EUの「反捕鯨」規範が物質構造と規範構造の間主観的相互作用によって形成され、それがEUの政策を規定しているという前提に立ち、捕鯨をめぐるEU、EU加盟国デンマーク、そしてデンマークの自治領グリーンランドの三者を「規制帝国」という新たな概念を援用して説明することを試みるものである。

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.

This book sheds light on the mechanisms of base politics that surround US overseas military bases, comparing several countries across different regions. Analysing cases from Japan, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Singapore, the contributors paint a detailed and complex picture of the role and impact of US bases. In times of war they project military power, and in times of peace they deter the emergence of general and latent threats. Furthermore, they are used to secure access to resources, and as a means of politically and economically influencing small and mid-size countries. From the viewpoint of the countries that host them, military bases allow the host many benefits of the US security umbrella, but can cause internal problems, including accidents and noise pollution that accompany the functioning of a base, as well as constraining their own sovereignty. Military bases do not simply serve to bring America strategic and security benefits - as symbols of the hierarchical structure of the international system, they influence power relations in the entire world. An invaluable resource for scholars of International Relations with an interest in the practical and theoretical challenges of the US's relationship with its allies.

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