Outside the Wire: U.S. Military Deployments and Public Opinion in Host States

Allen, Michael; Flynn, Michael E.; Machain, Carla Martínez; Stravers, Andrew

doi:10.1017/s0003055419000868

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“…The larger the value is, the greater is the corresponding political distance. This index is widely used to measure border political relations ( 30 , 31 ).…”

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Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on medical product imports from china from outbreak to stabilization: Monthly panel data regression and instrumental variable test

Pu¹,

Xu²,

Wang

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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This study conduct regressions of panal data with OLS and test with IV, empirically examines the COVID-19 epidemic's impact on the import of medical products from China from the perspective of the importing countries, exporting country, and other trading partners, and analyzes the inter-temporal impact across different product categories. The empirical results reveal that, in importing countries, the COVID-19 epidemic increased the import of medical products from China. In China, as an exporting country, the epidemic inhibited the export of medical products; by contrast, for other trading partners, it promoted the import of medical products from China. Among them, key medical products were most affected by the epidemic, followed by general medical products and medical equipment. However, the effect was generally found to wane after the outbreak period. Additionally, we focus on how political relations shape China's medical product export pattern and how the Chinese government is using trade means to improve external relations. In the post-COVID-19 era, countries should prioritize the stability of supply chains for key medical products and actively engage in international cooperation on health governance to further combat the epidemic.

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“…The larger the value is, the greater is the corresponding political distance. This index is widely used to measure border political relations ( 30 , 31 ).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on medical product imports from china from outbreak to stabilization: Monthly panel data regression and instrumental variable test

Pu¹,

Xu²,

Wang

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Thus, defence public diplomacy could encompass a wide variety of initiatives, described as military diplomacy, but which fit perfectly into this logic as instruments of soft power: advisory work on human rights, civilian control or institutional modernisation; bilateral cooperation agreements; joint exercises and manoeuvres; military attaché officers; military education, training, and troop training programmes; military base deployments; officer exchanges; participation in institutional fora; promotion of the national defence industry; provision of military equipment; visits to military units; or training of military and civilian defence personnel (Cottey & Foster, 2013;Atkinson, 2014;Winger, 2014;Allen et al, 2020;Kennedy, 2020;Muthanna, 2011;Karadag, 2016;Pajtinka, 2016). Obviously, many of these activities involve the engagement or active participation directly or indirectly of nongovernmental and/or non-state actors, as a means of reaching larger audiences, influencing individuals or projecting various facets of the country.…”

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(Mis)Understandings of defence diplomacy as public diplomacy: Insights from three Spanish elites

Bueno

2023

Communication & Society

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Defence diplomacy and public diplomacy are two diplomatic practices often treated in the literature as two disconnected realms. While the former focuses on the peaceful and cooperative use of armed forces, the latter emphasizes on the advancement of strategic communication in the international policy of actors. However, it is possible to bridge the differences between the two using the concept of soft power. By doing so, defence public diplomacy can be understood as a set of practices developed by states seeking to influence and attract third states while employing military force within these parameters. This paper contributes firstly to the conceptual debate bridging both types of diplomacies. Secondly, it selects a case study, Spain, to examine the perceptions of three different Spanish elites involved in the formulation and implementation of defence public policy: politicians, the military and defence industry managers. This paper adopts a qualitative methodology, including in-depth interviews, focus groups with experts, and manual content analysis of primary documentary sources. The results show that these elites agree on the importance of defence diplomacy for the achievement of state goals but continue to understand it fundamentally from a classical diplomatic prism. They also discuss the inclusion of new concepts, such as deterrence, as part of a defence public diplomacy.

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“…While security interests have stood at the heart of U.S.-host relations, the military's legal strategy helped to grease the wheels of these relations. These insights contribute to an emerging scholarly interest in how foreign populations perceive the U.S. military (Allen et al, 2020), and they yield implications for contemporary practices concerning jurisdiction over troops abroad. In recent years, the United States has become reluctant to cede its jurisdiction over troops, and the concluding section contrasts the current U.S. approach with the earlier, more cooperative American attitude.…”

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“…These negative effects have occasionally fueled domestic mobilization and civil-society opposition against U.S. bases (Kawato, 2015; Yeo, 2011). Yet, host-country governments have allowed the United States to establish military bases on their territory and remain there for decades, with at least some level of domestic consent (Allen et al, 2020). How did the long-term, peacetime hosting of U.S. troops become a viable policy for host countries?…”

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How to Handle Offending Troops Overseas: The U.S. Military’s Legal Strategy During the Cold War

Efrat

2022

Armed Forces & Society

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The peacetime deployment of U.S. forces in foreign countries goes against traditional notions of sovereignty. How did such deployment become legitimate following World War II? This article examines the legal strategy that the U.S. military employed to make American troop presence more palatable to foreign publics and to critics at home: granting certain legal authority over offending troops to host countries, while seeking to shield troops from trials in host-country courts. The military also used local, informal ties with hosts to guarantee fair legal treatment for troops and worked to convince skeptics that U.S. troops faced no legal threat. The mitigating of legal tensions helped the military create conducive political conditions for its presence abroad and likely contributed to the durability of U.S. deployments. The Cold-War practice contrasts sharply with the contemporary desire of the United States to maintain complete jurisdiction over its troops.

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Outside the Wire: U.S. Military Deployments and Public Opinion in Host States

Cited by 41 publications

References 50 publications

Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on medical product imports from china from outbreak to stabilization: Monthly panel data regression and instrumental variable test

Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on medical product imports from china from outbreak to stabilization: Monthly panel data regression and instrumental variable test

(Mis)Understandings of defence diplomacy as public diplomacy: Insights from three Spanish elites

How to Handle Offending Troops Overseas: The U.S. Military’s Legal Strategy During the Cold War

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