cam a22 4 4500 569304040 CHVBK 20201023214427.0 190726s2019 nju |||| 000 0 eng|d 978-0-691-18121-9 (NEBIS)011447625 (RERO)R008899423 (ALEX)9926008901101791 (OCoLC)1101923171 DEBBG ger SzZuIDS NEBIS ZBZ rda H97 .D67 2019 s1sp rero 320 15 320.6 23 Desch Michael C. 1960- (DE-588)155494341 Verfasser aut Cult of the irrelevant the waning influence of social science on national security Michael C. Desch Princeton Princeton University Press [2019] viii, 351 Seiten Diagramme Princeton studies in international history and politics Includes bibliographical references and index The relevance question: professional social science and the fate of security studies -- How war opened the door to the ivory tower during the First World War and peace closed it again -- World War II: social scientists in the physicists' war -- Social science's cold war: the behavioral revolution's quixotic effort to construct a "policy science" -- Summer studies, centers, and a governmentwide clearinghouse: federal efforts to mobilize social science for the Cold War -- The scientific strategists follow the economists to an intellectual dead end -- Strategic modernization theory bogs down in the Vietnam quagmire -- The "renaissance of security" languished until the owl of Minerva flew after 9/11 -- Conclusions, responses to objections, and scholarly recommendations To 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 "we must again embrace eggheads and ideas." But the gap between national security policymakers and international relations scholars has become a chasm. Michael Desch traces the history of the relationship between the Beltway and the Ivory Tower from World War I to the present day. Recounting key "Golden Age" academic strategists such as Thomas Schelling and Walt Rostow, Desch's narrative shows that social science research became most oriented toward practical problem-solving during times of war and that scholars returned to less relevant work during peacetime. Social science disciplines like political science rewarded work that was methodologically sophisticated over scholarship that engaged with the messy realities of national security policy, and academic culture increasingly turned away from the job of solving real-world problems. In the name of scientific objectivity, academics today frequently engage only in basic research that they hope will somehow trickle down to policymakers. Drawing on the lessons of this history as well as a unique survey of current and former national security policymakers, Desch offers concrete recommendations for scholars who want to shape government work. The result is a rich intellectual history and an essential wake-up call to a field that has lost its way Geschichte 1914-2018 gnd Geschichte gnd-content Politikberatung (DE-588)4046515-9 gnd Sicherheitspolitik (DE-588)4116489-1 gnd Sozialwissenschaften (DE-588)4055916-6 gnd National security Social sciences and state Sciences sociales (RERO)A021065179 rero Défense (RERO)A021014299 rero Sécurité nationale (RERO)A021014459 rero État (RERO)A021004196 rero 20e siècle-21e siècle (début) (RERO)A022440359 rero USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd Etats-Unis (RERO)A009975208 rero BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 zbzmon201907f beer zbzswk201907g beck idszbz Z2 RERO RE01003 RE01003 RE010030001 NA 2019.5343 RERO RE61087 RE61087 RE610870002 355.02(73) HEIA 123956 ALEX BIG BIG BIG NOG 22294 EG NEBIS Z01 Z01 02 2019 A 28575 NEBIS 100 1- Desch Michael C. 1960- (DE-588)155494341 Verfasser aut NEBIS 490 0- Princeton studies in international history and politics RERO 100 1- Desch Michael C. (IDREF)111660300 aut RERO 490 0- Princeton studies in international history and politics ALEX 100 1- Desch Michael C. 1960- Verfasser (DE-588)155494341 aut ALEX 490 0- Princeton studies in international history and politics NEBIS ZAD50 EBI01 Z01 https://opac.nebis.ch/objects/pdf03/z01_978-0-691-18121-9_01.pdf Titelblatt und Inhaltsverzeichnis VIEW pdf SWISSBIB 569304040