US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing

Nobuki Kawasaki is Professor of the Faculty of Policy Studies at Kansai University, Japan. After graduating from the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan, he has held a position as a special researcher of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.Takeshi Sakade is Professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan. After graduating from Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University, he has held positions at Toyama University, Japan.Hubert Zimmermann is Professor of International Relations at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. After graduating from the EUI in Florence (Italy), he has held, among others, positions at Düsseldorf University (Germany) and Cornell University (USA).

• IntroductionPart I: From the Early Cold War to the Crisis Period (1946-75)1. The US and UK’s Relationship in Occupied Germany between 1946 and 1947: Analyzing the Burden-Sharing of Occupation Costs2. British Independent Nuclear Deterrence and the Troop Level of the British Army on the Rhine, January 1957– March 19633. Reshaping the Link between Burden-Sharing and Influence: US Alliance Policy during the 1966 NATO Crisis4. US-UK-German Trilateral Offset Negotiations and the European Defense Industrial BasePart II: Regional Shift from Western Europe to East Asia (1976-91)5. Subsidizing US Hegemony: The Offset Agreements in US-West German Relations, 1960-19766. The Historical Change in the Logic of Japan’s Host Nation Support for the U.S. Forces7. South Korea’s Pride and Confidence in Burden-Sharing with the U.S.Part III: Post-Cold War, 1991-present8. Military Intervention as Burden-Sharing: The Debates in Germany and JapanConclusionIndex