Download Book The Empires' Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific - Sasha Davis
The Empires' Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China?s rising economic and military strength, North Korea?s nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center of global attention. While the Pacific is a cur- rent hotbed of geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also something else: a homeland to the hundreds of millions of people that inhabit it.Based on a decade of research in the region, The Empires? Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought on its people and environments. Furthermore, Davis details how contemporary social movements in this region ...