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Base Bargains:
The Political Economy of Okinawa’s Antimilitarism
Kimberly Zisk Marten and Alexander Cooley
Department of Political Science
Barnard College, Columbia University
Paper Prepared for the 100
th
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, August 30, 2003.
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permission. The authors acknowledge the generous financial support of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York through a grant to the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and
Peace Studies at Columbia University. We thank Takako Hikotani for her invaluable
assistance on our research trip to Okinawa and Tokyo, and Lyudmila Gorokhovich for
her research assistance.