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The goal of this chapter is to integrate and sum up the discussions from previous chapters and thus offer new insights regarding the role of sub-state actors in the field of security by focusing on the following three correlations:
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We theoretically extrapolate how the policy choices of subnational actors affect the interaction between the US politics regarding its overseas military bases and the polities of the countries hosting them (The correlation between vulnerability and hold-up);
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We shed light on how the local voice manifests itself and how it functions in various political matters concerning US overseas military bases at the level of national security by examining the cases of Greenland, Okinawa and Olongapo (The correlation between autonomy and military bases), and
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We evaluate the relationship between the emergence of Cold-War-like power relations in the post-Cold War period, which are visible in the current Arctic security environment, and sub-state actors (The methodological correlation between deduction and induction).
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However, even in the Igaliku Agreement, the United States did not change the article on the free use of the bases, which was the core of the 1951 Agreement (2.3 (b)), thus protecting its core interests: “Without prejudice to the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark over such defense area and the natural right of the competent Danish authorities to free movement everywhere in Greenland, the Government of the United States of America, without compensation to the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark, shall be entitled within such defense area and the air spaces and waters adjacent thereto.” (Agreement between the United States of America and Denmark, Amending and Supplementing the Agreement of April 27, 1951, Signed at Igaliku August 6, 2004.) https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/170358.pdf (Last viewed on September 30, 2017).
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In 1995, a consultation committee on diplomacy and security between the Danish government and the Greenland Home Rule Government was established.
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US Department of Defense Budget FY2017 (http://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/fy2017/FY2017_ERI_J-Book.pdf)
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Takahashi, M. (2019). Conclusion: The Political Choices of Sub-state Actors and the Politics Surrounding U.S. Military Bases. In: Takahashi, M. (eds) The Influence of Sub-state Actors on National Security. Springer Polar Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01677-7_8
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