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Armed Guests - Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing (Hardcover)
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Armed Guests - Territorial Sovereignty and Foreign Military Basing (Hardcover)
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In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies
developed a new type of security arrangement in which a state could
maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory
of another equally sovereign state that, unlike earlier practice,
was not tied to occupational regimes or colonial rule. The impact
of this development on international politics is hard to overstate,
and it has become a constitutive feature of contemporary security
dynamics. Despite its significance, the origins of this basing
practice have remained largely understudied and unexplained. In
Armed Guests, Sebastian Schmidt develops a theory to explain the
emergence of this phenomenon, which he calls "sovereign basing,"
and in doing so, shows how its development fundamentally
transformed state sovereignty and the very nature of security
politics. He applies concepts derived from pragmatist thought to a
historical study of the relations between the United States and its
wartime allies to explain how sovereign basing originated through
the efforts of policymakers to come to grips with the unique
security environment of the postwar era. As he argues, the tools
offered by pragmatism provide needed analytical leverage over the
emergence of novelty and offer valuable insight into the dynamics
of stability and change. Armed Guests is a wide-ranging account of
the development of sovereign basing practices in the years before
and after World War II. It is a book with significant implications
for our understanding of contemporary security politics and the
future of basing strategies as well as for broader issues in IR,
including the sociological foundations of security strategies, the
nature of norms, and the practice of sovereignty.
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