Military occupation is a recurrent feature of modern international politics and yet has received little attention from political scientists. This book, newly available in paperback, sets out to remedy this neglect, offering: * An account of military occupation as a form of government* An assessment of key trends in the development of military occupations over the last two centuries* An explanation the conceptual and practical difficulties encountered by occupiers* Examples drawn from, amongst others, the First and Second World Wars, US occupations in Latin America and Japan, the Israeli...