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Guantánamo: A Useful Corner of the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Paul A. Kramer
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The story told here will be familiar to students of Asia: an American military base established overseas in the aftermath of war and occupation; contractual terms reflecting vast asymmetries of power; local society transformed by the facility's demands for raw materials, goods and labor, including sexual labor; recurring tensions with “host” governments over questions of jurisdiction and sovereignty.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 32 , August 2013 , e4
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