Edwards, Liam Thomas (2025) More than Munitions: Military Bases, the Cold War, and the Projection of U.S. Power. [Tesi di dottorato]
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| Tipologia del documento: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Lingua: | English |
| Titolo: | More than Munitions: Military Bases, the Cold War, and the Projection of U.S. Power |
| Autori: | Autore Email Edwards, Liam Thomas liamedwards49@gmail.com |
| Data: | 3 Dicembre 2025 |
| Numero di pagine: | 357 |
| Istituzione: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Dipartimento: | Scuola Superiore Meridionale |
| Dottorato: | Global history & governance |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 37 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email Caglioti, Daniela Luigia danielaluigia.caglioti@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Della Cananea, Giacinto [non definito] |
| Data: | 3 Dicembre 2025 |
| Numero di pagine: | 357 |
| Parole chiave: | bases, military, cold war, empire, SOFA, United States |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 11 - Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche > M-STO/04 - Storia contemporanea Area 14 - Scienze politiche e sociali > SPS/04 - Scienza politica |
| Informazioni aggiuntive: | Doctoral Cycle 37/Ciclo di Dottorato 37 |
| Depositato il: | 23 Dic 2025 13:38 |
| Ultima modifica: | 02 Set 2026 08:08 |
| URI: | https://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/16832 |
Abstract
This research examines the impacts of U.S. foreign military bases during the Cold War period in the fields of economics, urban architecture, infrastructural power, and international law. Since the time of the Roman Empire, foreign military bases have served vital roles providing military security, protecting trade routes, and projecting political and economic power abroad. After the Second World War, the United States possessed thousands of foreign military bases across the globe. Many of these facilities were closed in the following decades, but hundreds remain as integral components of U.S. grand strategy in the twenty-first century. Recent research has analyzed the political dimensions to these bases and their impacts on communities within host countries. This research adopts an interdisciplinary and global approach to examine aspects of the expression of U.S. power abroad during and after the Cold-War period through the use of three case studies in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Italy. The purpose of this work is to analyze under- researched impacts of U.S. foreign military bases abroad and to contribute to the growing body of literature on base studies that is increasingly adopting regionally contextual approaches to global phenomena. This research concludes that within the current literature on base studies, conceptions of military power are conceived of too narrowly to properly assess both the breadth and scope of the impacts of U.S. power expression during the Cold War period and thereafter. Through the analysis of these case studies, this research also concludes that commonly accepted temporal boundaries to demarcate the Cold War — 1945 to 1991 — do not accurately reflect the wide range of economic, infrastructural, and legal impacts of U.S. foreign military bases on the global community.
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