1st Edition

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

Edited By Joseph Soeters, Philippe Manigart Copyright 2008
268 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.