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  title info:
    title: Social Science and National Security Policy
    sub title: Deterrence, Coercion, and Modernization Theories
  name:
    name part: Klinger, Janeen M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 252 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines how deterrence, coercion and modernization theory has informed U.S. policy, addressing why former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's famous description of the Vietnam War as the "social scientist's war" is so accurate. By tracing the evolution of ties between social scientists and the government beginning in World War I and continuing through the Second World War and the early Cold War, the narrative highlights the role of institutions like the RAND Corporation, the Social Science Research Council and MIT's Center for International Studies that facilitate these ties while providing a home for the development of theory. The author compares and contrasts the ideas of Bernard Brodie, Herman Kahn, Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Schelling, Gabriel Almond, Lucian Pye and Walt Rostow, among others, and offers a cautionary tale concerning the difficulties and problems encountered when applying social science theory to national security policy. Janeen M. Klinger is Emeritus Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, USA. She previously taught at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the University of Mary Washington.
  table of contents: 1. Evolution of a Partnership: Social Science and National Security Policy -- 2. The Nature Sciences and Public Policy: Insights from the History and the Philosophy of Science -- 3. The Science of Strategy: Deterrence and Coercion Theory -- 4. A Scientific Approach to Development: Modernization Theory -- 5. Theory Meets Practice: The Case of the Vietnam War.
  note: by Janeen M. Klinger.
  subject:
    topic: Politics and war
  subject:
    topic: Political theory
  subject:
    topic: World politics
  subject:
    topic: United States-Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Military and Defence Studies
  subject:
    topic: Political Theory
  subject:
    topic: Political History
  subject:
    topic: US Politics
  subject:
    topic: Foreign Policy
  subject:
    topic: Social Theory
  classification: JZ6378-6405
  classification: 355
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783030112516
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    record creation date: 190207
    record change date: 20191026232634.0
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