Neither security nor development? Czech and Hungarian identities and interests in the provincial reconstruction teams in Afghanistan

Bibliographic Data

ID6255337
AuthorsOndřej Horký-Hlucháň (0000-0001-6966-1948, Institute of International Relations Prague, corresponding author), Balázs Szent-Iványi (0000-0002-5883-4601, Aston University)
Year2015
Volume31
Issue4
Pages388-406
Publication date2015-10-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEast European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2159-9165 • E-ISSN: 2159-9173
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21599165.2015.1078792
OpenAlexW1942229807
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited27

This article builds on the securitisation and post-development literature and it scrutinises the Czech and Hungarian legitimising discourses of the two countries' respective Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in the Logar and Baghlan provinces of Afghanistan from 2007 to 2013. In spite of the hybrid civil–military character of the PRTs, their security–development nexus was absent and they were respectively securitised and "developmentalised" only indirectly and to a varying extent. The PRTs were mostly justified by the Czech Republic's NATO membership as an identity issue and they were justified as a Hungarian national interest and as both an obligation and an opportunity. Rather than merely importing NATO's arguments as suggested by the previous literature, the depoliticisation and positive connotation of the intervention in Afghanistan was constructed by the domestic NATO-related identities and interests in the Czech Republic and Hungary

Connotation · Czech · Intervention (counseling · Nexus (standard · Obligation · Political science · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

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