Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations: Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response

ISBN-13: 9780415445894 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str.

Soeters, Joseph

Opis

Using theoretical overviews and empirical case studies, this volume explores how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them. It is suitable for

Spis treści

1. Introduction Joseph Soeters and Philippe Manigart  Part 1: Thematic Overviews  2. The UN: Multinational Cooperation in Peace Operations Donna Winslow  3. The Interplay Between the Transnational and Multinational: Intercultural Integrating Mechanisms in UN Peace Operations Efrat Elron  4. Leadership and Management Teams in Multinational Military Cooperation Angela Febbraro  5. Tough Talk: Clear and Cluttered Communication in Peace Operations Andrea van Dijk  Part 2: Case Studies  6. The British Way of War: The UK Approach to Multinational Operations Anthony King  7. A Regional Recipe for Success: Multinational Peace Operations in East Timor John R. Ballard  8. Unususal Bi-National Military Cooperation: The Case of Turkish-Gambian Relations Abulkadir Varoglu, Mehmet Cakar and Nejat Basim  9. Towards Transnational Identities in the Armed Forces? German-Italian Military Cooperation in Kosovo Maren Tomforde  10. Diversity versus Effectiveness in Multinational Units: Italian, Hungarian and Slovenian Cooperation in the Multinational Land Force Ljubica Jelusic and Bojan Pograjc  11. Swedish-Irish Cooperation in Liberia Erik Hedlund, Louise Weibull and Joseph Soeters  12. Accidental Neighbours: Japanese and Dutch Troops in Iraq Jan van der Meulen and Hitoshi Kawano  13. The Formation of the Global Soldier: Managing Identities in Multinational Military Units Anne-Marie Søderberg and Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg  14. Smooth and Strained Multinational Military Cooperation: Three Cases in Kabul Joseph Soeters, Delphine Resteigne, Rene Moelker and Philippe Manigart  Part 3: Afterthoughts  15. Epilogue Joseph Soeters and Philippe Manigart 

O autorze

Joseph Soeters is Professor of Organization Studies at the Netherlands Defense Academy and Tilburg University. Philippe Manigart is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Brussels Royal Military School.