Bureaucratic Politics, Role Conflict, and the Internal Dynamics of US Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2340965
AutoresConor Keane (Macquarie University), Steve Wood (0000-0001-5028-7458, Macquarie University, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume42
Fascículo1
Páginas99-118
Data de publicação2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArmed Forces & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0095-327X • E-ISSN: 1556-0848
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0095327x15572113
OpenAlexW2079053227
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

Among the many challenges confronting the United States and its allies in Afghanistan were cohesion and communication problems in state-building programs. Merging role theory and bureaucratic politics approaches, this article argues that US Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), the composite groups charged with implementing these programs, suffered from incompatibilities between sectors of government, among which the military was dominant. US PRTs were affected by role conflict, resulting from varying and often competing organizational cultures with divergent role conceptions

Bureaucracy · Cohesion (chemistry) · Economic system · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Group cohesiveness · Internal conflict · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Law · Military History and Strategy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Public Administration