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008			181212s2019 sz b 000 0 eng d
020			_a3030112500 (hbk.)
020			_a9783030112509 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1078759089
050			_aUA10.5 _b.K55 2019
100	1		_aKlinger, Janeen M.
245	1	0	_aSocial science and national security policy : _bdeterrence, coercion, and modernization theories / _cJaneen M. Klinger.
260			_aCham, Switzerland : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c[2019]
300			_aix, 252 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aThis 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. -- Back cover
650		4	_aNational security.
650		4	_aSocial sciences.
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