The geopolitics of U.S. overseas troops and withdrawal / Jo Jakobsen.
2022
U163
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The geopolitics of U.S. overseas troops and withdrawal / Jo Jakobsen.
Author
Jakobsen, Jo.
ISBN
9783030944889 (electronic bk.)
3030944883 (electronic bk.)
3030944875
9783030944872
3030944883 (electronic bk.)
3030944875
9783030944872
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-030-94488-9 doi
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U163
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355.4773
Summary
Why is it so difficult for a great power or a hegemon to retrench? More specifically, why are U.S. military bases and troops still largely where they have been for generations? This book offers an explanation. It argues that the murkiness of the anarchic international system combines with specific psychological inclinations of individuals to produce better-safe-than-sorry policies. Members of the U.S. foreign-policy community overwhelmingly prefer the status quo over any uncertain alternative, and they want their country to continue to maximize its influence and project its military force abroad in order to steady wobbling, though inherently hypothetical, geopolitical dominoes. The theory is put to the empirical test through an elaborate analysis of U.S. overseas troop deployments, withdrawal attempts, and retrenchment resistance from 2017 through 2021. Even if U.S. voters elected a retrenchment advocate Donald Trump as president, and despite that the United States is a gradually declining power, the period saw very little change in U.S. overseas troop deployment. Jo Jakobsen is professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
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Palgrave studies in international relations.
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GEOPOLITICS OF U.S. OVERSEAS TROOPS AND WITHDRAWAL.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Stayers, Leavers, and U.S. Overseas Troops
Chapter 3. Political Realism and Structural Constraints on Retrenchment
Chapter 4. The System, the Psyche, and the Stayers
Chapter 5. The Geopolitical Logic of U.S. Overseas Troops
Chapter 6. U.S. Overseas Troops: Empirical Patterns, 2017-2021. - Chapter 7. Regional Domino Narratives and the Geopolitics of Withdrawal
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Whither U.S. Overseas Troops?.
Chapter 2. Stayers, Leavers, and U.S. Overseas Troops
Chapter 3. Political Realism and Structural Constraints on Retrenchment
Chapter 4. The System, the Psyche, and the Stayers
Chapter 5. The Geopolitical Logic of U.S. Overseas Troops
Chapter 6. U.S. Overseas Troops: Empirical Patterns, 2017-2021. - Chapter 7. Regional Domino Narratives and the Geopolitics of Withdrawal
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Whither U.S. Overseas Troops?.