Cargando…
Cult of the Irrelevant : The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security /
How professionalization and scholarly "rigor" made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America's intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post-9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that "w...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_62654 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905050439.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 181107s2019 nju o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780691184906 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780691181219 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780691228990 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1080550366 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Desch, Michael C. |q (Michael Charles), |d 1960- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Cult of the Irrelevant : |b The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security / |c Michael C. Desch. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton : |b Princeton University Press, |c [2019] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2019 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©[2019] | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource. | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Princeton studies in international history and politics | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 The Relevance Question: Professional Social Science and the Fate of Security Studies; 2 How War Opened the Door to the Ivory Tower during the First World War and Peace Closed It Again; 3 World War II: Social Scientists in the Physicists' War; 4 Social Science's Cold War: The Behavioral Revolution's Quixotic Effort to Construct a "Policy Science"; 5 Summer Studies, Centers, and a Governmentwide Clearinghouse: Federal Efforts to Mobilize Social Science for the Cold War. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 6 The Scientific Strategists Follow the Economists to an Intellectual Dead End7 Strategic Modernization Theory Bogs Down in the Vietnam Quagmire; 8 The "Renaissance of Security" Languished until the Owl of Minerva Flew after 9/11; 9 Conclusions, Responses to Objections, and Scholarly Recommendations; Notes; Index. | |
| 520 | |a How professionalization and scholarly "rigor" made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policyTo mobilize America's intellectual resources to meet the security challenges of the post-9/11 world, US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates observed that "we must again embrace eggheads and ideas." But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. In Cult of the Irrelevant, Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key "Golden Age" academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch's narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship that engaged with the messy realities of national security policy, and academic culture increasingly turned away from the job of solving real-world problems. In the name of scientific objectivity, academics today frequently engage only in basic research that they hope will somehow trickle down to policymakers. Drawing on the lessons of this history as well as a unique survey of current and former national security policymakers, Desch offers concrete recommendations for scholars who want to shape government work. The result is a rich intellectual history and an essential wake-up call to a field that has lost its way | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Social sciences and state. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01123060 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a National security. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01033711 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x International Relations |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Reference. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Government |x National. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Government |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Essays. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Sciences sociales |x Politique gouvernementale. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a National security. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social sciences and state. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/62654/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2019 Complete | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2019 Political Science and Policy Studies | ||