Cult of the Irrelevant: The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security

by Michael C. Desch

Book Overview

How professionalization and scholarly "rigor" made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691181217
• ISBN13: 9780691181219
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"