Cult of the irrelevant : the waning influence of social science on national security /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in international history and politics.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. 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. Scientific Strategists Follow the Economists to an Intellectual Dead End
- 7. Strategic Modernization Theory Bogs Down in the Vietnam Quagmire
- 8. "Renaissance of Security" Languished until the Owl of Minerva Flew after 9/11
- 9. Conclusions, Responses to Objections, and Scholarly Recommendations.