THE GEOPOLITICS GEOECONOMICS OF MILITARY BASE CLOSURES IN THE USA/

Contrary to assertions equating the post-Keynesian state with a milita rized economy, the closure of US military facilities in the 1990s reve als a fluid, highly contingent politic dynamic that profoundly affects the landscape of military expenditures. This paper opens with a refut ation of interpretations that equate post-Keynesianism with militarism . Next, it examines the geopolitics surrounding closures of military f acilities, including Pentagon motivations and the sources of local opp osition. Third, it turns to the geoeconomics of base closures: using i nput-output analysis, it estimates the total impacts by state attribut able to the 1988, 1991 and 1993 waves of closures. Finally, it points to the fruits of alternative uses of such sing military conversion. (C ) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.