The Network-Society Phenomenon in the Lithuanian-Led PRT in Afghanistan

• Authors: Justina Budginaitė
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses the implementation of NATO`s comprehensive approach in the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the Ghor province in Afghanistan. The ambiguity of this approach - its meaning varies greatly accordingly to the specific organization or country implementing it - encourages discovery of the “Lithuanian” model of comprehensive approach. In order to achieve this goal, the network-society theory of sociologist Manuel Castells is chosen as the theoretical background of the analysis. By expanding this theory to the military domain and by conducting a quantitative, expert-interviews based analysis of the Lithuanian-led PRT, the level of “comprehensiveness” entrenched in the activities of the Lithuanian civil-military team is revealed.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 233-254

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-01-25

Contributors

author

Justina Budginaitė

• Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University
• Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10243-012-0029-9