Archive for the 'social science'

• Corn’s Caliphates in Wonderland

March 26th, 2011 by zen

Posted in 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, 4GW, 9/11, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analogy, analytic, anthropology, arab world, authors, COIN, cold war, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, diplomatic history, extremists, Failed State, geopolitics, government, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, mideast, national security, non-state actors, organizations, pakistan, Perception, politics, primary loyalties, public diplomacy, rambling, Religion, small wars journal, social networks, social science, state terrorism, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, synthesis, terrorism, Theology, theory, transnational criminal organization, tribes, turkey, virtual states, war | 12 comments

• OODA and “Strategy Making Process” for Business

March 25th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, business, chet richards, cognition, corporations, dni, economics, Epistemology, ideas, intellectuals, psychology, social science, society, strategist, strategy, teaching, theory | 1 comment

• Honor killings

March 7th, 2011 by Charles Cameron

Posted in analytic, anthropology, britain, christianity, counterintuitive, cultural intelligence, extremists, framing, freedom, geopolitics, Human Rights, India, islamic world, islamist, kurdistan, Perception, Religion, social science, Theology, tribes, Uncategorized | 1 comment

• The Sociobiological Origins of Beauty

March 6th, 2011 by zen

Posted in academia, analytic, anthropology, attention, brain, cognition, cultural intelligence, culture, Evolution, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, Perception, philosophy, Prehistoric, psychology, science, social science, society, sociobiology, synthesis, TED, theory | Comments Off on The Sociobiological Origins of Beauty

• Guest Post: DARPA, STORyNet and the Fate of the War by J. Scott Shipman

March 2nd, 2011 by zen

Posted in Afghanistan, al qaida, analogy, analytic, cognition, cognitive goods, Collaboration, counterinsurgency, creativity, cultural intelligence, culture, emotion, Epistemology, extremists, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, insurgency, intellectuals, intelligence, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, metacognition, military intelligence, myth, non-state actors, organizations, OSINT, Perception, primary loyalties, priming, propaganda, psychology, public diplomacy, Religion, scenario, social science, synthesis, Tactics, Theology, theory, tribes, war, warriors | 11 comments