6. The Scientific Strategists Follow the Economists to an Intellectual Dead End

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. 1. The Relevance Question: Professional Social Science and the Fate of Security Studies 1
5. 2. How War Opened the Door to the Ivory Tower during the First World War and Peace Closed It Again 20
6. 3. World War II: Social Scientists in the Physicists’ War 42
7. 4. Social Science’s Cold War: The Behavioral Revolution’s Quixotic Effort to Construct a “Policy Science” 65
8. 5. Summer Studies, Centers, and a Governmentwide Clearinghouse: Federal Efforts to Mobilize Social Science for the Cold War 91
9. 6. The Scientific Strategists Follow the Economists to an Intellectual Dead End 145
10. 7. Strategic Modernization Theory Bogs Down in the Vietnam Quagmire 176
11. 8. The “Renaissance of Security” Languished until the Owl of Minerva Flew after 9/11 205
12. 9. Conclusions, Responses to Objections, and Scholarly Recommendations 240
13. Notes 257
14. Index 335