NIMBY or YIMBY? Understanding the complex relationships between foreign military bases and host societies

Abstract

Based on a scoping review of English-language scientific literature for the period of 1990–2022, the article presents a synthetic outline of previous research, focusing on factors influencing the specifics of foreign military bases (FMBs) as examples of facilities that mostly generate negative attitudes known as ‘Not In My Backyard’ (NIMBY). The specific characteristics of different categories of objects that generate various social attitudes are also presented. The results of the analyses include a classification of factors and aspects related to the local impacts of foreign military bases, which have not been analysed before.

Keywords

• foreign military bases
• nimby attitudes
• social
• economic
• environmental factors
• local community effects
• extraterritorial facilities