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Meeting the Language Challenges of NATO Operations

Policy, Practice and Professionalization

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War (PASLW)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 1-9
  3. NATO Linguistic Services 1949–1994

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 10-27
  4. English as the Working Language

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 28-39
  5. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Identifying the Problems

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 40-61
  6. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Implementing Solutions

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 62-77
  7. Kosovo: Following a Pattern

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 78-96
  8. Kosovo: Implementing Solutions

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 97-111
  9. Afghanistan 2003

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 112-126
  10. Afghanistan 2006

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 127-154
  11. Afghanistan from 2008

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 155-180
  12. NATO Doctrine

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 181-195
  13. Conclusions

    • Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
    Pages 196-204
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 205-230

About this book

After 40 years of Cold War, NATO found itself intervening in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the ability to communicate with local people was essential to the success of the missions. This book explains how the Alliance responded to this challenge so as to ensure that the missions did not fail through lack of understanding.

Authors and Affiliations

  • City of Bath Boys’ School, University of Salford, UK

    Ian P. Jones

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Louise Askew

About the authors

Ian P. Jones joined NATO as a linguist in 1976. He served as Head of the Linguistic Service at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) from 1989 to 2011 and was responsible for coordinating the Linguistic Services in the Alliance's permanent and peace support operation headquarters.

Louise Askew has worked as a linguist for the US Government, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and was Chief of the Linguistic Service at the NATO HQ in Sarajevo from 2000 to 2004. In June 2011, she received a PhD on the language policy of international organizations in post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina. She now works as an interpreter for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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