America's Overseas Garrisons: The Leasehold Empire

ISBN-13: 9780198296874 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 368 str.

Christopher T. Sandars

Opis

The book is a world-wide survey of the terms and conditions under which the United States has stationed her forces in independent sovereign states since 1945. The book analyzes the constraints of the "Pax Americana" country by country and contrasts this with the rights of conquest enjoyed by traditional colonial empires.

Recenzje

a most readable account of the terms and conditions under which U.S. military forces have been deployed in a variety of host nations since 1945.

O autorze

Christopher Sandars is Assistant Under Secretary of State (General Finance), Ministry of Defence. He recently completed a sabbatical year as a Fellow at the Centre of International Affairs at Harvard University.