Tracing the US Military’s Presence in Africa

Moore, Adam; Walker, James

doi:10.1080/14650045.2016.1160060

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“…This article traces the embodied forms that citizenship under suspicion takes in the urban gray zone, as citizen‐suspects contend with their subjection to expansive and illegible forms of police power that are authorized by the war on terror. We have a growing understanding of the infrastructural apparatus that makes transnational policing possible, from drone bases to airport holding rooms and cooperative security locations (Li 2018; Moore and Walker 2016; Scahill 2016). With few exceptions, the histories, politics, and security infrastructures of Global South partner states are often overlooked in these analyses.…”

Section: The Urban Gray Zonementioning

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Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya

Al-Bulushi

2021

American Anthropologist

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This article privileges the grounded geographies of the war on terror, focusing on those who grapple with its everyday policing powers. Informed by ethnographic research in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa, I explore how Kenyan Muslim activists experience and make sense of the networked assemblages of police power that transform urban spaces into “gray zones” that fall within the ambiguous spectrum between war and peace. As US‐trained Kenyan police employ military tactics of tracking and targeting potential terror suspects in quotidian urban spaces, they rely on “pop‐up” interventions such as abductions, house raids, and makeshift checkpoints—flexible maneuvers designed to match the amorphousness of the so‐called enemy. I introduce the term citizen‐suspect to shed light on actually existing citizenship in the urban gray zone. Citizen‐suspects contend not simply with the fear and paranoia that come with subjection to surveillance and suspicion but with the knowledge that is needed to navigate the shape‐shifting geographies of transnational policing.

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Section: The Urban Gray Zonementioning

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Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya

Al-Bulushi

2021

American Anthropologist

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“…The different Spanish governments have always shown interest in maintaining the nearly 10,000 U.S. soldiers and civilians distributed between the two bases, due to their defensive and economic impact. Likewise, the U.S. administration also shows interest in negotiating the renewal of the Agreement (Moore, 2016). 30…”

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“…The traditional policy of generosity with the green card that offers Unidas Podemos has clashed with the realpolitik of the hot border areas with Africa. Finally, the government has completed its first year without opening a public controversy over relations with the United States and the important and strategic position of the Morón and Rota military bases, where the U.S. Army has one of its main bases in overseas operation (Moore, 2016). 2 The collaboration agreement between the Governments of Spain and the United States must be renewed next May 2021, and the silence of the minority partner of the coalition shows, once again, that foreign policy is a field that fortunately has not broken with the great consensus of the past four decades.…”

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Reasons Why the New Spanish Coalition Government Had to Adjust Its Foreign Affairs Policy Along Venezuela’s Political Position, the Sahara’s Conflict, and the Renewal of the U.S. Military Basis

Xuclà

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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The purpose of this article is to detect the lack of coincidence regarding foreign affairs in the electoral programs of the two members of the Spanish center-left coalition1. The main assumption of this article is that the Socialist Party maintains its foreign affairs program, while Unidas Podemos, the coalition partner, does not because it focuses its priorities on other areas of its political agenda at the sacrifice of foreign policy. This article explores the tensions and resignations experienced in the field of foreign policy by the two government partners. It also explains how both political forces had to revise their proposals in order to allow the formation of a new government. This article hypothesizes that the resignations have been greater by Unidas Podemos, and that the Socialist Party has been able to maintain the core of its doctrine on foreign policy, security, and defense. The main challenge that this government will face in the upcoming months is the enlargement of the agreement between Spain and the United States regarding the establishment of the U.S. Army at the Spanish military bases of Rota and Morón. Regarding the methodology, we analyzed the top articles literature to compare the political action of several European coalition governments in developing its foreign affairs policy.

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“…This strand of work illuminates the securitization of complex political issues, such as global warming, development or ecological conservation (Dalby, 2017; Hartmann, 2014; Lunstrum, 2014; Selby and Hoffmann, 2014). Here, too, the extra-territorial reach of state power is a major theme (Hall Kindervater, 2017; Moore and Walker, 2016). The research also intersects with the study of policing and surveillance in IR (Von Lucke et al, 2014), critical military studies (Rech et al, 2015; Woodward et al, 2017), critical legal studies (Jones and Smith, 2015), border and migration studies (Collyer, 2016) and urban geography (Coleman, 2016; Darling, 2016).…”

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Political geography II: Institutions

Kuus

2018

Progress in Human Geography

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Modern power is bureaucratized power, institutionalized formally through governmental and non-governmental structures and informally through unwritten social conventions. This report reviews recent political geographic work on the institutional arrangements that enable and constrain all political practice. Institutions here refer to organizations as well as looser semi-institutionalized patterns in public and private life. The report will first examine the scholarship on formal organizations and it will then review the research on professional fields and popular culture. The conclusion highlights the transnationalization and neoliberalization of institutions as a theme that runs through much of contemporary political geography.

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Tracing the US Military’s Presence in Africa

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Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya

Citizen‐Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya

Reasons Why the New Spanish Coalition Government Had to Adjust Its Foreign Affairs Policy Along Venezuela’s Political Position, the Sahara’s Conflict, and the Renewal of the U.S. Military Basis

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