1st Edition

US Hegemony, American Troops Abroad and Burden-Sharing West Europe and East Asia during and after the Cold War

Edited By Nobuki Kawasaki, Takeshi Sakade, Hubert Zimmermann Copyright 2025
182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Kawasaki, Sakade, Zimmerman, and their contributors examine the historical development of burden-sharing among the United States (US) and its allies after World War II, looking at examples from Western Europe and East Asia. Through a series of case studies, the contributors to this volume identify the characteristics and historical transformations in the burden-sharing relationships between the... Read more

Introduction

Part 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 Costs

2. British Independent Nuclear Deterrence and the Troop Level of the British Army on the Rhine, January 1957– March 1963

3. Reshaping the Link between Burden-Sharing and Influence: US Alliance Policy during the 1966 NATO Crisis

4. US-UK-German Trilateral Offset Negotiations and the European Defense Industrial Base

Part II: Regional Shift from Western Europe to East Asia (1976-91)

5. Subsidizing US Hegemony: The Offset Agreements in US-West German Relations, 1960-1976

6. The Historical Change in the Logic of Japan’s Host Nation Support for the U.S. Forces

7. South Korea’s Pride and Confidence in Burden-Sharing with the U.S.

Part III: Post-Cold War, 1991-present

8. Military Intervention as Burden-Sharing: The Debates in Germany and Japan

Conclusion

Index

Biography

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).