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This thesis employs feminist international relations theory to examine the United States ’ reliance on foreign women to fulfill its international agenda. Specifically, this thesis parallels the development of military prostitution during the post-World War II American occupations of Japan and Korea with the evolution of the United States’ foreign policy in each country to identify the ways in which American government and military leaders depended on Japanese and Korean women’s sexual labor to sustain these multi-year military occupations and advance their strategic political and economic objectives in the region. Beginning in Chapter One with an overview of feminist international relations theory, the thesis then explores the United States ’ historical relationships with Japan and Korea in Chapter Two. Chapter Three provides an overview of the United States ’ efforts to manage its soldiers ’ use of prostitutes through World War II, emphasizing variations in American sociocultural attitudes toward—and methods of regulating—U.S. prostitutes, foreign sex workers, and their U.S. military patrons. Building on this historical an