Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis. By Eve Darian-Smith. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 230p. $22.00 paper.

book’s empirical chapters show how much of US basing lacked a sovereign basing framework, and its development was thus not part of a grand plan but rather an endogenous process. In the concluding chapter, Schmidt goes on to discuss the potential for future basing by other major powers, such as China. Though Schmidt notes that “pragmatism has a rather pessimistic view of the capacity for prediction” (p. 215), he does make the point that US sovereign basing has now established a precedent for this process and other countries (such as China) are likely to follow the US model. The book and its theory are thus useful both in explaining how the US basing system came to be established and how the future of basing may take shape in years to come.