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Power Problems • August 6, 2024 

# The Rising Costs of Overseas Military Bases 

Renanah Joyce, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and Brian Blankenship, Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, explain how great power competition for foreign military bases in third-party host countries increases the costs of securing access. They discuss the strategy behind US forward basing over time, expansion into Africa in recent years, different ways of providing compensation to host countries, increasing competition for host country access, the lack of transparency on US overseas presence, and the strategic utility (or lack thereof) of overseas basing.

**Show Notes**

- Renanah Miles Joyce & Brian Blankenship (2024) “[The Market for Foreign Bases](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09636412.2023.2271387),” *Security Studies*, 33(2), 194–223.

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##### Renanah Miles Joyce 

Assistant Professor of Security Studies in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University

![Brian Blankenship](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2024-06/Brian-Blankenship.jpeg?itok=QJZKYJIg) 

##### Brian Blankenship 

Assistant Professor, University of Miami

![John Glaser](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/author_picture/public/2021-01/John%20Glaser.jpg?itok=-uvxR8zG) 

##### John Glaser 

Host, Power Problems Podcast

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