Archive for the 'social science'

• Summer Series 2010: Reviewing the Books!

September 4th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, authors, book, culture, feedback, fiction, fisking, fun, geopolitics, historians, history, ideas, intellectuals, military history, politics, psychology, readers, reading, social science | 2 comments

• Fallen Walls and Fallen Towers by Adrienne Redd

August 30th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, analytic, connectivity, diplomacy, diplomatic history, Failed State, foreign policy, framing, futurism, geopolitics, globalization, government, horizontal thinking, ideas, intellectuals, legitimacy, national security, networks, Nimble Books, non-state actors, organizations, politics, security, social science, society, state failure, strategy, terrorism, theory | 1 comment

• Grand Strategy and Morality II.

August 24th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analytic, history, ideas, intellectuals, myth, Perception, philosophy, politics, social science, society, strategy, theory | 18 comments

• The Strategist as Demiurge

August 7th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 20th century, 21st century, academia, analytic, anthropology, cognition, creativity, cultural intelligence, culture, DIME, education, Epistemology, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, intellectuals, intelligence, metacognition, military, military reform, psychology, small wars journal, social science, SSI, strategist, strategy, Strategy and War, swj blog, synthesis, teaching, theory, vertical thinking, war | 10 comments

• Excessive Complexity = FAIL

August 3rd, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, complex systems, complexity, economics, government, rule-sets, social science, society, state failure, visualization | 33 comments