TY  - BOOK
AU  - George,Renuka
AU  - Samaan,J.
TI  - The RAND Corporation (1989-2009): The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States
T2  - eBooks on Demand
SN  - 9781137057358
AV  - JA1-92 
U1  - 327.73 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US
KW  - International relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I New and Old Rules of the Military-Intellectual Field -- One The Inheritance of a Technicist Ideology -- Two The Competitive Dynamics of the Strategic Field -- Part II RAND and the New US Military Posture -- Three RAND and the Post-Cold War Pentagon -- Four The Work of Legitimizing Political Agendas -- Part III The Emissaries of American Military Thought -- Five The Internationalization of RAND: A Tale of US Global Posture after the Cold War -- Six RAND and the Global Diffusion of US Strategic Concepts -- Conclusion: The Disenchantment of Strategists? -- Notes -- Index
N2  - Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this book shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood and accurately illustrated through an analysis of the evolution of the think tank community, and more particularly through a sociological study of the so-called "defense intellectuals" such as the RAND Corporation. Indeed, RAND as the quintessential Cold War think tank provides a fruitful illustration of the difficult adaptation of American strategic studies in the last two decades
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