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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.