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Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and Germany since 1945

Social Unrest and American Military Bases in Turkey and Germany since 1945

Holmes, Amy Austin

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1316643506
ISBN13: 9781316643501
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 10 2016
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Over the past century, the United States has created a global network of military bases. While the force structure offers protection to U.S. allies, it maintains the threat of violence toward others, both creating and undermining security. Amy Austin Holmes argues that the relationship between the U.S. military presence and the non-U.S. citizens under its security umbrella is inherently contradictory. She suggests that the while the host population may be fully enfranchised citizens of their own government, they are at the same time disenfranchised vis-à-vis the U.S. presence. This study introduces the concept of the protectariat as they are defined not by their relationship to the means of production, but rather by their relationship to the means of violence. Focusing on Germany and Turkey, Holmes finds remarkable parallels in the types of social protest that occurred in both countries, particularly non-violent civil disobedience, labor strikes of base workers, violent attacks and kidnappings, and opposition parties in the parliaments.

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