1st Edition
Military Cooperation in Multinational Peace Operations Managing Cultural Diversity and Crisis Response
This edited volume uses theoretical overviews and empirical case studies to explore both how soldiers cope with the new forms of cultural diversity occurring within various multinational military operations, and how their organizations manage them.
Military organizations, like other complex organizations, are now operating in an ever more diverse environment, with the missions themselves being ever more varied, and mostly conducted in a multinational framework. Members of the military have to deal with a host of international actors in the theatre of operations, and do so in a foreign cultural environment, often in countries devastated by war. Such conditions demand a high level of intercultural competence. It is therefore crucial for military organizations to understand how military personnel manage this cultural diversity.
This book will be of much interest to students of peace operations, military studies, international security, as well as sociology and business studies.
Part 1 General overviews:
1. Joseph Soeters, Philippe Manigart & Donna Winslow, Multinational military missions: their rise and difficulties.
2. Laura Wortel & Tim Grant, National culture and information sharing for C2 systems in the 21st Century.
3. Angela Febbraro & Phyllis Brown, Leadership and management teams in multinational military co-operation.
Part 2 Case studies
4. Anthony King, Multinational operations and the British armed forces.
5. Jeffrey Schwertzel, “The nations will never accept it.” Co-operation at NATO HQ.
6. Efrat Elron, “Why don’t they fight each other?” A framework of multinational military co-operation
The Balkans
7. Maren Tomforde, “How about Pasta and Beer?” Challenges of German-Italian cooperation in Kosovo (see attached MS).
8. Ljubica Jelusic, Diversity versus effectiveness in a Italian-Hungarian-Slovenian multinational land force unit.
South-West Asia
9. Joseph Soeters, Delphine Resteigne, Rene Moelker & Philippe Manigart, Smooth and strained international military cooperation; three cases in Kabul.
10. Jan van der Meulen, Hitoshi & Joseph Soeters, Japanese-Dutch encounters in Iraq.
Africa
11. Nejat Basim, Abulkadir Varoglu & Mehmet Cakar, Cooperation in military training: the Turkish armed forces in Gambia.
12. Leena Parmar, A unique learning process: Indian troopers in Eritrea.
13. Erik Hedlund & Louise Weibul, Swedish-Irish encounters in Liberia.
14. P.I. Daniels & M. L. Mampe, The South-African defense forces leading the way in peacekeeping missions in Africa.
Epilogue
15. J. Soeters & Ph. Manigart, Results, conclusions and reflections.
Biography
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.
