Title page -- Preface -- List of Authors -- Contents -- Section I. Lessons from the Past: US Military Bases in Europe During the Cold War -- Under Paid, Under Sexed and on the Way Out? The Past, Present and Future of US Basing in Europe -- `Over There ... to Stay this Time': The Forward-Deployment of American Basing Strategy in the Cold War and Beyond -- Operation Lamachus: The Holy Loch US Nuclear Base and the Dangers of Local Radiation Pollution -- Bargaining over Brawdy: Negotiating the American Military Presence in Wales, 1971 -- US Bases in Spain Since 1953 -- Azores or Angola? Military Bases and Self-Determination During the Kennedy Administration -- Section II. The Political and Social Impact of US Military Bases -- Building the Cold War Frontier: Bases, Refugees, and Germans in Franconia, 1945-60 -- US Military Bases and the Rehabilitation of West Germany in the 1950s -- Homeward Bound: Assessing the Geopolitical Ramifications of Sprawl -- New Bases, Old Politics: The Rise and Decline of the US Military Presence in Central Asia -- Impact and Perspectives of American Bases in Italy -- Foreign Bases and Strategies in Contemporary Portugal -- Section III. The Emerging Basing Posture in the Black Sea Area -- Russia's Black Sea Military Bases -- Russian Perceptions of Bases and Assessments of Military Balance in the Black Sea Area -- The Russian Black Sea Fleet and Ukraine's Security Strategy: Agenda 2017 -- The Dynamics of Military Basing in the South Caucasus -- The End of Russian Military Bases in Georgia: Social, Political and Security Implications of Withdrawal -- The Global Defence Posture Restructuring: The Case of Romania -- Author Index.