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Cultural Awareness in the Military

Developments and Implications for Future Humanitarian Cooperation

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Robert Albro

    1. American University, USA

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  2. Bill Ivey

    1. Global Cultural Strategies, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Military Cultural Capacity after Afghanistan

    • Robert Albro, Bill Ivey
    Pages 1-14

  3. Cautionary Tales from the US Department of Defense’s Pursuit of Cultural Expertise

    • Kerry B. Fosher
    Pages 15-29

  4. Changing Culture with Culture at the US Naval Academy

    • Clementine Fujimura
    Pages 30-41

  5. Cultural Education and Training: The Era of COIN

    • Rochelle Davis
    Pages 42-56

  6. Humanitarian-Military Collaboration: Social and Cultural Aspects of Interoperability

    • Robert A. Rubinstein
    Pages 57-72

  7. The Unsolved Issues of Protection and Recovery of Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict

    • Lynn H. Nicholas
    Pages 73-82

  8. Beyond the 1954 Hague Convention

    • Patty Gerstenblith
    Pages 83-99

  9. Introducing Cultural Heritage Management to the US Military

    • Laurie W. Rush
    Pages 100-111

  10. A Journalist’s Reflections on the Military Cultural Turn

    • Steve Coll
    Pages 112-122

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 123-128
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About this book

Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effort to account for culture and increase its cultural capacity over the last decade. Contributors to this work consider some of the key challenges, lessons learned, and the limits of such efforts.

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''This benchmark volume examines how the U.S. military has upped its attention to local cultures in order to win wars [...] and enhanced its reputation by providing humanitarian relief and protecting heritage. Expert analysts [...] offer sophisticated treatments of overarching issues and specific cases in this concise, excellent, and very timely account.'' - Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Smithsonian Institution

Editors and Affiliations

  • American University, USA

    Robert Albro

  • Global Cultural Strategies, USA

    Bill Ivey

About the editors

Robert Albro, Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, American University, USA Steve Coll, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USA Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University, USA Kerry Fosher, Cultural Anthropologist, USA Clementine Fujimura, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University, USA Bill Ivey, American Folklorist, USA Lynn H. Nicholas, Author, USA Robert A. Rubinstein, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA Laurie W. Rush, Cultural Resources Manager and Federal Archaeologist, US Army, USA

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