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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.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Meeting the Language Challenges of NATO Operations
Book Subtitle: Policy, Practice and Professionalization
Authors: Ian P. Jones, Louise Askew
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312563
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-31255-6Published: 02 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45732-8Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31256-3Published: 20 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5902
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 230
Topics: Translation, International Organization, Sociolinguistics, Translation Studies, International Relations