Cult of the irrelevant : the waning influence of social science on national security /
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| Format: | 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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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.