Barracks and barricades: How internal security threats affect foreign basing access in the Philippines

• Main Authors: BROWN, Wellington J., DULAY, Dean C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Military and Veterans Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3284; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4546/viewcontent/Barracks_barricades_Philippines_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper presents a theory of foreign military basing as a function of the degree of internal threat facing a host nation. The theory is based on rational choice logic where politicians balance economic and security benefits against sovereignty and legitimacy costs. When internal threat is low a h...