Looking through a territorial lens: militarization and local fishers’ everyday livelihoods in Okinawa

Kohatsu, Tatsuki

doi:10.1080/21622671.2022.2159509

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“…The possible trade losses that would ensue for both parties reduce the willingness of both sides to engage in armed confrontation. Hence, countries that engage in international trade are more likely to be peaceful or less likely to resort to armed confrontation as a means of resolving disputes emanating from rivalries that include trade competition and trade wars, as the current one between the two largest economies globally ( inter alia : Chong and Li, 2019; Iqbal et al., 2019; Kohatsu, 2023; Zaman, 2023a, b). The peace-inducing effect of international trade has long attracted considerable attention in the relevant literature, and it is by no means an unchallenged thesis ( inter alia : Beyene, 2015; Hegre et al., 2010; Martin et al., 2008; Gartzke and Li, 2003; Barbieri, 2002; Barbieri and Levy, 1999).…”

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Militarization, globalization and liberal democracy: a nexus?

Kollias¹

2023

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PurposeUsing composite indices, the paper examines the nexus between militarization, globalization and liberal democracy. The democratic peace theory, the conflict inhibiting effects of international trade – a key and dominant facet of globalization – and the democracy promoting globalization hypothesis form the theoretical underpinnings of the empirical investigation.Design/methodology/approachTo probe into the issue at hand, the paper adopts a dynamic panel VAR estimation procedure. Given the usual data constraints, the sample consists of 113 countries, and the estimations span the period 1995–2019.FindingsThe findings from the dynamic panel VAR estimations suggest the presence of a negative and statistically significant nexus between the level of globalization and the level of militarization. No statistically traceable nexus between globalization and liberal democracy was found.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings offer empirical support to the hypothesis that the strong links of interdependence shaped by globalization reduce the need for military preparedness. The results lead to a tentative inference in favor of the doux commerce thesis. Nonetheless, given that the estimations span a historically specific period – the entire post-bipolar era – the inferences that stem from the findings should be treated with caution.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, the composite indices Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (BICC) militarization index, the globalization index of the Swiss Economic Institute (Konjunkturforschungsstelle) (KOF), LibDem, polyarchy have not hitherto been jointly used in previous studies to examine the nexus between militarization, globalization and liberal democracy.

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Militarization, globalization and liberal democracy: a nexus?

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2023

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Political geography I: Blue geopolitics

Jones

2024

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This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the political geographies of oceans. While oceans were overlooked for many years as theories of sovereignty, territory, and borders focused on terrestrial politics, the significant impact of climate change resulted in a new focus on the role oceans place in global environmental and political systems. At the same time, the enclosure of over 40 percent of the oceans as territorial seas, exclusive economic zones, and extended continental shelves through the Convention on the Law of the Sea produced burgeoning literature on maritime borders and conflicts. The report proposes the concept of blue geopolitics to capture an oceanic turn in political geography theories.

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Looking through a territorial lens: militarization and local fishers’ everyday livelihoods in Okinawa

Cited by 2 publications

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Militarization, globalization and liberal democracy: a nexus?

Militarization, globalization and liberal democracy: a nexus?

Political geography I: Blue geopolitics

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