The infrastructural power of the military: The geoeconomic role of the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Arabian Peninsula

In analysing the role of the US in the global expansion of capitalist relations, most critical accounts see the US military’s invasion and conquest of various states as paving the way for the arrival of US businesses and capitalist relations. However, beyond this somewhat simplified image, and even in peacetime, the US military has been a major geoeconomic actor that has wielded its infrastructural power via its US Army Corps of Engineers’ overseas activities. The transformation of global economies in the 20th century has depended on the capitalisation of the newly independent states and the consolidation of liberal capitalist relations in the subsequent decades. The US Army Corps of Engineers has not only extended lucrative contracts to private firms (based not only in the US and host country, but also in geopolitically allied states), but also, and perhaps most important, has itself established a grammar of capitalist relations. It has done so by forging both physical infrastructures (roads, ports, utilities and telecommunications infrastructures) and virtual capitalist infrastructures through its practices of contracting, purchasing, design, accounting, regulatory processes and specific regimes of labour and private property ownership

American forces in Berlin : Cold War outpost, 1945-1994 /

Includes index.Shipping list no.: 95-0054-P.Includes bibliographical references (p. 194).Mode of access: Internet

Bricks, sand, and marble : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947-1991 /

Shipping list no.: 2010-0183-P.Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. The Mediterranean and the origins of the Cold War -- Army engineers in the Mediterranean, 1942-1952 -- The Moroccan air-base Program, 1950-1954 -- Shifting the locus of work, 1952-1957 -- pt. 2. The Mediterranean Division in Italy, 1957-1972 -- Headquarters and the southern district, 1957-1960 -- The Trans-East and Gulf districts, 1958-1960 -- The Gulf district, 1961-1967 -- The Mediterranean Division, 1961-1966 -- Developing the Saudi Arabian programs, 1967-1972 -- pt. 3. Army engineers in Saudi Arabia, 1972-1988 -- New programs and organizational changes, 1972-1977 -- Programs for the Ministry of Defense and Aviation in the 1970s and 1980s -- Modernization of the Saudi Arabian Navy and National Guard -- King Abdulaziz Military Academy -- King Khalid Military City -- pt. 4. Changing geopolitics in the Middle East -- Reorienting the engineer effort, 1981-1986 -- From division to Middle East/Africa Projects Office, 1985-1991 -- Conclusion: Army engineers overseas : challenges, opportunities, and changing times.Mode of access: Internet

Building for peace : U.S. Army engineers in Europe, 1945-1991 /

Shipping list no.: 2006-0288-P.Includes bibliographical references and index.Mode of access: Internet

Selected groundwater studies of EU project AquaTerra leading to large-scale basin considerations

Several local groundwater studies within the EU project AquaTerra in the Basins of the Meuse, Elbe point at significant influences of groundwater on surface water, while the Brévilles Catchment shows a distinct problematic of pesticide loading to groundwater. Further modeling studies are currently being developed. In the Danube Basin no specific groundwater studies were carried out in the framework of AquaTerra. However on larger scales geochemical proxies such as strontium isotope ratios can give an insight into groundwater contributions to the river that reflects an integral signal of the environmental status of the Basin. Future local groundwater studies should be further correlated to the environmental status of rivers nearby