Rationality, Culture, and War
Title | Rationality, Culture, and War PDF eBook |
Author | M. Eric Reeves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 834 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Politics and war |
ISBN |
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
Title | How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Erickson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022604677X |
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.
The Political Economy of Predation
Title | The Political Economy of Predation PDF eBook |
Author | Mehrdad Vahabi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107133971 |
This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.
The War for the Mind of the West
Title | The War for the Mind of the West PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Reeves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 549 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Germany |
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The Politics of War
Title | The Politics of War PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Reynolds |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Strategic Culture and Ways of War
Title | Strategic Culture and Ways of War PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Sondhaus |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2006-08-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135989745 |
A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war. It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a ‘British Way in Warfare’. The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, when Jack Snyder introduced it to explain why leaders of the Soviet Union did not behave according to rational choice theory. These ideas have gained wide acceptance among historians of international politics and warfare, and remain controversial for political scientists seeking general or universal theoretical understanding of such subjects. Because political scientists have focused on strategic culture and historians on ways of war, this work will greatly benefit both audiences and provide each with valuable exposure to the ideas of the other.
An Anatomy of Power
Title | An Anatomy of Power PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Hall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2006-02-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1139450700 |
Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists of recent decades. His work has had a major impact in sociology, history, political science, international relations and other social science disciplines. His main work, The Sources of Social Power, of which two of three volumes have been completed, provides an all-encompassing account of the history of power from the beginnings of stratified societies to present day. Recently he has published two major works, Fascists and The Dark Side of Democracy. Yet unlike other contemporary social thinkers, Mann's work has not, until now, been systematically and critically assessed. This volume assembles a group of distinguished scholars to take stock, both of Mann's overall method and of his account of particular periods and historical cases. It also contains Mann's reply where he answers his critics and forcefully restates his position. This is a unique and provocative study for scholars and students alike.