Meeting the language challenges of NATO Operations : policy, practice and professionalization / Ian P. Jones, SHAPE (NATO), Belgium ; Louise Askew, Independent Scholar and Interpreter, UK.
"After 40 years of Cold War, during which it never carried out a 'live' operation, NATO suddenly found itself intervening in three conflicts - in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan - where the ability to communicate with local officials and populations was essential to the suc...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Translation and Interpretation as the Focus of Language Policy
- 1. NATO Linguistic Services 1949-1994
- 2. English as the Working Language
- 3. Bosnia-Herzegovina : Identifying the Problems
- 4. Bosnia-Herzegovina : Implementing Solutions
- 5. Kosovo : Following a Pattern
- 6. Kosovo : Implementing Solutions
- 7. Afghanistan 2003
- 8. Afghanistan 2006
- 9. Afghanistan from 2008
- 10. NATO Doctrine
- 11. Conclusions.