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Hegemony, force posture, and the provision of public goods: the once and future role of outside powers in securing Persian Gulf Oil / Rovner, Joshua; Talmadge, Caitlin

Talmadge, Caitlin	Journal Article
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2014.

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International relations theories emphasize the stabilizing role hegemons play in world politics. But little scholarship has examined the link connecting hegemony to its potentially positive returns in the security realm: force posture. We correct this deficit by developing and testing an argument about the consequences of different hegemonic force postures under varying threat conditions. We present a typology of force posture options and probe their effects through over-time analysis of how major powers have worked to provide one particularly important public good since 1945: access to Persian Gulf oil. Drawing on field work, we also explore the implications of our framework for current and future US force posture in the region. We conclude that hegemonic stability is a very real phenomenon in the Gulf, but it does not require the massive forward deployment of US forces that has characterized the past twenty years of US presence there.

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Energy Security ; Persian Gulf ; Economic Power ; Energy Policy ; Energy Politics ; International Power ;
Hegemonic Stability ; Force Posture ; Topology ; Security Realm ; International Relations - IR ; Political Phenomenon ;
International Community - IC ; Perto-Economy

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Off the map, beneath our feet: cartographic amnesia and the national body / Rosen-Carole, Adam

Rosen-Carole, Adam	Journal Article
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2012.

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The imaginary consolidation of America as a sovereign nation-state situated on a state-centric international topography was and remains predicated on spatializing practices bound up with the ongoing eradication of indigenous people(s) and simultaneous effacement, or at least repression, of the violence of the (neo)colonial encounter. The American nation-state is founded on the all-but-forgotten bodies and worlds of indigenous peoples and is continually secured by a narrative constellation that reduces the decimation of people(s) to a clearing of space on which a sovereign nation could be constructed or within which it could evolve. This article will trace the various techniques of decimating indigenous cultures and bodies that facilitate efforts of nationalist historiography that reduce indigenous cartographies to mere space situated within a narrative trajectory of American national unification.

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Historiography ; America ; Cartography ; Narrative ; Indigeneity ; Topology

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