Quasi-Bases - The US military and Domestic Politics in Latin America

This paper explores the phenomenon of US quasi-bases in Latin America, which are semi-formal agreements that grant the US military tacit access to local military bases without a formal lease. While the importance of formal US bases in the region has dramatically decreased, a network of quasi-bases provides critical support for US antidrug operations from Central to South America. The paper builds on Alexander Cooley's theory of base politics (2008) to explain why formal bases are more difficult to open and maintain as democracy expands in the region, and categorizes previously unstudied quasi-base arrangements. Democratic expansion affects foreign military bases in three ways. Formal base negotiations are likely to succeed if the benefits of hosting foreign bases are not only perceived by the local government but also by the opposition. Conversely, when the benefits are concentrated in the government and its clients, excluded political groups are likely to oppose the base

• Autores: Bitar Giraldo, Sebastian Elías
• Tipo de recurso: Work document
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/8770
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/8770
• Palabra clave: Bases militares estadounidenses - Investigaciones - América Latina; Bases militares estadounidenses - Aspectos políticos - Investigaciones - América Latina; Estados Unidos - Relaciones militares; América Latina - Relaciones militares; América Latina - Política y gobierno - Siglo XXI
• Rights: openAccess
• License: https://repositorio.uniandes.edu.co/static/pdf/aceptacion_uso_es.pdf