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The empires' edge [militari...
"In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China's rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center of global attention. While the Pacific is a current hotbed of geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also something else: a homeland to the hundreds of millions of people that inhabit it. Based on a decade of research in the region, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought on its people and environments. Furthermore, Davis details how contemporary social movements in this region are affecting global geopolitics by challenging the military use of Pacific islands and by developing a demilitarized view of security based on affinity, mutual aid, and international solidarity. Through an examination of 'sacrificed' islands from across the region--including Bikini Atoll, Okinawa, Hawai'i, and Guam--The Empires' Edge makes the case that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is not about which country gets hegemony in a global system but rather about the choice between perpetuating a system of international relations based on domination or pursuing a more egalitarian and cooperative future"--
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monografia Rebiun17906798 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun17906798 m o d cr cn||||||||| 141001t20152015gaua ob 001 0 eng|d 9780820344560 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0820344567 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9780820347356 (paperback : alkaline paper) 0820347353 (paperback : alkaline paper) 9780820347783 e-book) UPVA 997922515603706 UAM 991007721966804211 UPCT u393756 CaPaEBR. eng. rda. pn. CaPaEBR. BUC po----- dd----- 355/.033095 23 Davis, Sasha 1971-) author The empires' edge recurso electrónico] militarization, resistance, and transcending hegemony in the Pacific Sasha Davis Athens The University of Georgia Press [2015] Athens Athens The University of Georgia Press 1 online resource (171 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (171 pages) E-Libro Geographies of justice and social transformation Includes bibliographical references and index Hegemony and Affinity in the Islands of Empire -- Surveying the Baseworld -- Seeing like an Empire : Islands as Wastelands -- Local Resistances and Imperial Reactions -- Colonialism, Militarization, Tourism, and Environment as Nexus -- Networks of Affinity and Myths of the Postcolonial Pacific "In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China's rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center of global attention. While the Pacific is a current hotbed of geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also something else: a homeland to the hundreds of millions of people that inhabit it. Based on a decade of research in the region, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought on its people and environments. Furthermore, Davis details how contemporary social movements in this region are affecting global geopolitics by challenging the military use of Pacific islands and by developing a demilitarized view of security based on affinity, mutual aid, and international solidarity. Through an examination of 'sacrificed' islands from across the region--including Bikini Atoll, Okinawa, Hawai'i, and Guam--The Empires' Edge makes the case that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is not about which country gets hegemony in a global system but rather about the choice between perpetuating a system of international relations based on domination or pursuing a more egalitarian and cooperative future"-- Provided by publisher Hegemony Militarism- Islands of the Pacific Militarism- Environmental aspects- Islands of the Pacific International cooperation- Philosophy Geopolitics- Islands of the Pacific Social movements- Islands of the Pacific Islands of the Pacific- Relations- Developed countries Developed countries- Relations- Islands of the Pacific Islands of the Pacific- Politics and government Islands of the Pacific- Environmental conditions Libros electrónicos E-Libro (Servicio en línea) Geographies of justice and social transformation