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A Niscemi (Caltanissetta) sta per essere installato uno dei quattro terminali terrestri mondiali del MUOS, il nuovo sistema di telecomunicazioni satellitari della Marina militare Usa. Si tratta di uno dei progetti chiave per le guerre... more
An essay written before the exit of the Navy from Vieques.
Over more than sixty years since the 1953 Atoms for Peace program was launched, the dominant tendency in public discourse to separate nuclear power into peaceful and military uses has obscured the fact that both aspects of nuclear power... more
""This article explores the relationship between prostitution, nationalism and foreign policies using a feminist analysis framework. Although scholars have dealt with the theoretical role of women in nationalist projects, there is little... more
This study analyzes the perpetuation of US hegemony through its overseas military bases. It takes a Marxist-Gramscist hegemony approach as its theoretical basis and discusses the political processes, ideological debates, security... more
Born in Okinawa of Okinawan mothers and Filipino fathers, many Nisei who were brought up in the Philippines have returned to Okinawa as adults to seek economic mobility, acquire Japanese citizenship, and search for part of their roots.... more
MCAS Futenma *(Marine Corps Air Station), is a United States military aviation facility located in a dense urban neighborhood in southern Okinawa. Okinawa is an island, sandwiched between the East China and Philippine Seas, of just... more
Civilian employees on military bases are hardly given attention in literature on military basing, particularly in the context of the U.S. presence in Japan. Most of these employees are Japanese nationals, but a large number of them are... more
Op-Ed del 26 de septiembre de 2003, en el 50° aniversario de los pactos entre España y EEUU de 2003, que permitieron la instalación de bases norteamericanas en territorio español.
At the beginning of the 1990s the United States commitment to NATO is being reassessed on both sides of the Atlantic, to take account of a less prosperous American security guarantor and an increasingly uncertain political environment in... more
From a transnational feminist perspective, this essay studies the genocide of civilians during the Korean War and prostitution around U.S. bases in South Korea as the legacy of the war. By examining the Korean military prostitutes' social... more
Pakistan has recently witnessed an increase in incidents of terrorism especially in Balochistan ─ where key CPEC projects such as Gwadar port are hosted. Though Pakistani security forces have thwarted such attacks, the likelihood of... more
As discussant: The Jury System in Okinawa under the American Occupation and Its Background of the Introduction
Recommendation for continued US military presence in Afghanistan
Prior to World War II, Australia had relied heavily on Britain for foreign and defence policy guidance. Disagreements which had developed between Australia and Britain in the inter-war years had not been serious enough to undermine... more
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This study draws on ethnographic and archival evidence from the Italian Archipelago of La Maddalena, offshore from the northeastern corner of Sardinia, where in 1972 the U.S. Navy installed a base for nuclear submarines. It addresses two... more
Over more than sixty years since the 1953 Atoms for Peace program was launched, the dominant tendency in public discourse to separate nuclear power into peaceful and military uses has obscured the fact that both aspects of nuclear power... more
In 2016, a group of five people calling themselves “Peace Pilgrims” entered a prohibited zone around Pine Gap, a US military base in Australia. They were arrested and tried for trespass. The story of this action and its aftermath is told... more
The Ford Institute for Human Security and the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies hosted a panel discussion on September 7, 2011 to celebrate the recent publication of the book African Security and the US African... more