Cultural embeddedness refers to âthe role of shared collective understandings in shaping economic strategies and goalsâ (17). Structural embeddedness is defined, following Granovetter, as âthe contextualization of economic exchange in patterns of ongoing interpersonal rela- tionsâ (18).
Joint doctrine addresses a broad range of military operations, including crisis response. and limited contingency operations. Peace operations (PO) are a type of joint operation (called. peace support operations [PSO] in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] alliance).
He stresses that armed forces can also be âcalled to participate in humanitarian and interposition peacekeeping operationsâ expressing the attractiveness of military means (2000, p. 53). The use of armed forces is, according to him, therefore not to be seen at the hard power pole of the hard-soft-power continuum.