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The Empires' Edge - Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific (Hardcover)
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The Empires' Edge - Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific (Hardcover)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
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In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of
international politics and military strategies. Due to China's
rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests
and missile launches, tense international disputes over small
island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States
pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the
islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center
of global attention. While the Pacific is a cur- rent hotbed of
geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also
something else: a homeland to the hundreds of millions of people
that inhabit it.
Based on a decade of research in the region, "The Empires' Edge"
examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific
has wrought on its people and environments. Furthermore, Davis
details how contemporary social movements in this region are
affecting global geopolitics by challenging the military use of
Pacific islands and by developing a demilitarized view of security
based on affinity, mutual aid, and international solidarity.
Through an examination of "sacrificed" is- lands from across the
region--including Bikini Atoll, Okinawa, Hawai'i, and Guam--"The
Empires' Edge" makes the case that the great political contest of
the twenty-first century is not about which country gets hegemony
in a global system but rather about the choice be- tween
perpetuating a system of international relations based on
domination or pursuing a more egalitarian and cooperative future.
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