• Sebastian Schmidt
  (author)
• Oxford University Press
  ,
  2020
• Purchase Online

In the wake of World War II, the United States and its allies developed a new type of security arrangement in which a state could maintain a long-term, peacetime military presence on the territory of another equally sovereign state that, unlike earlier practice, was not tied to occupational regimes or colonial rule.  The impact of this development on international politics is hard to overstate, and it has become a constitutive feature of contemporary security dynamics.