Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law (Dec 2018)
TRIDENT JUNCTURE 18: HOW DOES THE SPOKESPERSON'S INSTITUTION COMMUNICATE IN A SIMULATED POLITICAL-MILITARY CRISIS?
Abstract
Our analysis aims to identify the structure of the Spokesperson's institution in the military exercise preparation campaign that NATO has simulated between October 25 - November 7, 2018 in Norway. NATO exercise will be interpreted in our analysis from the perspective of answering the question "Who is communicating in the preparation for the military exercise?". By using Harold Laswell's simple communication model, we will only select in our analysis its grounding question "Who communicates?". Neither the effect nor the content of the message is of particular interest in our enterprise, whose purpose, we reaffirm, is to identify the structure and the dimensions of the Spokesman's institution in a political-military crisis situation. The question of the laswellian model has a special dimension in our analysis, in the sense that it applies in a political-military crisis situation simulated by NATO, in the largest military exercise since the Cold War. So, "Who communicates about NATO's simulation exercise of armed intervention by activating Article 5 of the Alliance?”
