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The Canadian-led Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team: A success story?

International Journal, 2013
The record of the Canadian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the efficiency of Canada’s recently adopted whole-of-government approach to conflict situations. This study maps the evolution of the interagency dynamics of Canadian departments and agencies during their six ...
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Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: Securitizing Aid through Developmentalizing the Military

2016
Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) became to the development-security nexus what light bulbs were to electricity. Before Edison’s invention, many people would have heard of electricity, but few would have understood its meaning. Only by direct application of the abstract phenomenon to practice was the utility of electricity illuminated and ...
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The Role of Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Stability Operations: Reality and Potential

2008
Abstract : The United States Government established provincial reconstruction teams (PRT) in early 2003 with the intent of spreading ISAF effects throughout Afghanistan. The mission of the PRTs was and is to increase economic and governance capacity in a province to stimulate growth and stability for the people in Afghanistan.
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Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Regional-Command-East (Operation Enduring Freedom-VIII)

2009
Abstract : Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan, specifically in Regional-Command-East during OEF-VIII, provide an insight into how the Diplomatic, Informational, Military, and Economic elements of national power can be brought together to create the desired effects in a Counter-Insurgency (COIN) effort.
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The Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan: Context, Experiences and Politics

Defence Studies, 2010
This article is an empirical‐theoretical mapping of the Czech participation in the peacebuilding reconstruction of Afghanistan in the form of the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). As will become clear, an important part of such a study is a focus on the analysis of the influence of the security context and external factors on the ...
Nik Hynek, Jan Eichler
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The Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team: Civil-Military Teaming in Logar Province

2013
Abstract : This paper describes the development and implementation of the reconstruction process by the Czech PRT in Afghanistan as a model of cooperation between civilian and military elements. It proposes recommendations for possible improvements to civil-military cooperation not only between the Czech Republic Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Ministry ...
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The Canadian Provincial Reconstruction Team: The Arm of Development in Kandahar Province

American Review of Canadian Studies, 2010
By selecting Kandahar as the site of its Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in 2005, Canada chose the largest role possible for itself as an ally of the United States in its effort to neutralize Afghanistan as a base for international terrorism. Canada's prestige as a member of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and a major ...
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Bureaucratic Politics, Role Conflict, and the Internal Dynamics of US Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan

Armed Forces & Society, 2015
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 ...
Conor Keane, Steve Wood
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