Cult of the Irrelevant : The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security /

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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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Main Author: Desch, Michael C. (Michael Charles), 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social sciences and state.
National security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Sciences sociales > Politique gouvernementale.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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