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Title Reconstructing Afghanistan : civil-military experiences in comparative perspective / edited by William Maley and Susanne Schmeidl
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary security studies
Contemporary security studies.
Contents Introduction / William Maley and Susanne Schmeidl -- Fumbling the Baton : US Civil-Military Relations in the Afghan War / David J. Kilcullen -- The Civil-Military approaches developed by the United Kingdom under its PRTs in Mazar-e Sharif and Lashkar Gah / Barbara J. Stapleton -- New Zealand Civil-Military Relations in Afghanistan : Aims, Assessments, and Lessons / Stephen Hoadley -- Canada's Whole of Government Approach : More and Less Than Advertised / Stephen M. Saideman -- Civil-Military Interaction : The Uruzgan Experiment / Sebastiaan Rietjens -- Playing Three Dimensional Chess : Australia's Civil-Military Commitment in Afghanistan / Raspal Khosa -- Civil-Military Interaction in Afghanistan : The Case of Germany / William Maley -- Civil-Military Cooperation in Afghanistan : The French Experience / Frédéric Grare -- Boundary Wars : NGOs and Civil-Military Relations in Afghanistan / Jonathan Goodhand -- Civil-Military Relations of the United Nations Assistance Mission and other Funds, Agencies and Programmes in Afghanistan, 2001-2011 / Joseph Mohr -- When Few Means Many : The Consequences of Civilian Casualties for Civil-Military Relations in Afghanistan / Niamatullah Ibrahimi -- Conclusions and Reflections / William Maley
Summary "This book identifies some of the main lessons for civil-military interactions that can be derived from the experiences of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan. The book has three main themes. Firstly, the volume analyses why the ways in which civil and military actors interact in theatres of operations such as Afghanistan matter -- for both those categories of actors, and for the ordinary people who their interactions serve. Second, the book highlights that these interactions are invariably complex. The third theme, which arises specifically from 'the PRT experience' in Afghanistan, is that such teams vary significantly in their roles, resourcing, and operational environments. Consequently, to appraise the value of 'the PRT experience', it is necessary to unpack the experiences of different PRTs, which the use of case studies allows one to do. The volume comprises an introduction, identifying some key questions to which the PRT experience gives rise, and case studies of the experiences of the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, The Netherlands, Australia, Germany and France; chapters dealing with the roles played by NGOs and the UN system and a discussion from an Afghan perspective of the implications of civilian casualties. It is the combination of the diverse cases discussed in this book with a focus on the broad challenges of optimising civil-military interactions that makes this book distinctive"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 18, 2014)
Subject Post-war reconstruction -- Afghanistan
Post-war reconstruction -- Afghanistan -- International cooperation
Civil-military relations -- Afghanistan
Internal security -- Afghanistan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Civil-military relations
Internal security
Afghanistan
Form Electronic book
Author Maley, William, 1957- editor.
Schmeidl, Susanne, editor
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