Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of the effect of US military bases abroad, including the movements against them.
Trade Review'A powerful assessment of the world wide network of US Military bases. In studying the impact of militarism on people's lives. This book [makes] a major contribution' -- Kimberly Theidon, Harvard University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of Figures
Preface, by Cynthia Enloe
Introduction: Bases, Empire, and Global Response, by Catherine Lutz
Part One: Mapping US Power
1. U.S. Foreign Military Bases and Military Colonialism: Personal and Analytical Perspectives, by Joseph Gerson
2. U.S. Military Bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, by John Lindsay-Poland
3. US Nuclear Weapons Bases in Europe, by David Heller and Hans Lammerant
4. Iraq as a Pentagon Construction Site, by Tom Engelhardt
Part Two: Global Resistance
5. People's Movement Responses to Evolving U.S. Military Activities in the Philippines, by Roland G. Simbulan
6. 'Give Us Back Diego Garcia': Unity and Division among Activists in the Indian Ocean, by David Vine and Laura Jeffery
7. Environmental Struggle after the Cold War: New Forms of Resistance to the U.S. Military in Vieques, Puerto Rico, by Katherine McCaffrey
8. Okinawa: Women's Struggle for Demilitarization, by Kozue Akibayashi and Suzuyo Takazato
9. Opposition to the US Military Presence in Turkey in the Context of the Iraq War, by Ayse Gul Altinay and Amy Holmes
10. Resisting Militarization in Hawai`I, by Kyle Kajihiro
Afterword: Down Here, by Julian Aguon
Notes on Contributors
Index
