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Focus on the frontline Kalkman, J.P.
2019
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Kalkman, J. P. (2019). Focus on the frontline: Civil-military collaboration in domestic and European crisis management.
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The Dutch armed forces are increasingly involved in domestic and European crisis management. As a consequence, they have to collaborate with various civilian crisis organizations which are already actively engaged in these contexts, including the police, fire brigade, volunteer organizations, and NGOs. In practice, this collaboration takes place on the operational level between frontline members of the armed forces and civilian crisis agencies.
This raises the question: How do frontline members of the Dutch armed forces shape civil-military collaboration in domestic and European crisis management?
Jori Kalkman analyzed Dutch crisis management and the response to the European migration crisis to answer this question. Research findings show that military frontline members feel a sense of loyalty to the armed forces but also to local, civilian crisis partners and networks.
Consequently, they are subject to competing expectations and experience role conflicts. They resolve these role conflict by engaging in organizational politics with their superiors. They resist locally inappropriate strategies and pursue locally relevant policies. When frontline members enjoy discretion, this organizational politics has beneficial consequences for the collaboration between civilian and military organizations in domestic and European crisis management.
ISBN 9789493124028
Focus on the frontline
Jori Pascal Kalkman - F ocus on the frontline
Civil-military collaboration in domestic and European crisis management
Jori Pascal Kalkman
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