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Author Davis, Sasha, 1971- author.

Title The empires' edge : militarization, resistance, and transcending hegemony in the Pacific / Sasha Davis
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 157 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Geographies of justice and social transformation
Geographies of justice and social transformation.
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Oceania.
Ecology
Geopolitics
Hegemony
International relations
Militarism
Militarism -- Environmental aspects
Politics and government
Social movements
SUBJECT 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
Subject Developed countries
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0820347787
9780820347783