Conceptualizing a New School of Political Conflict and Terrorism Studies
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: S ome interesting changes in the interchange among US government officials and social science researchers, political scientists in particular, in the nation’s universities are afoot. One might date the beginning of this new relationship to then Vice President Al Gore’s initiation of the State Failure Project in 1994.[1] More recently, the Defense Department’s Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office has begun a Human, Social, and Cultural Behavior Modeling project, [2] and the Pentagon has recently announced the Minerva project, which seeks to “embrace eggheads and ideas” and “recruit social scientists and direct the nation’s brainpower to combating security threats like the Chinese military, Iraq, terrorism and religious fundamentalism.”[3]
Authors: Will H. Moor, Stephen M. Shellman
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1562517424