Archive for the 'social science'

• Book Talk from Abu Muqawama

May 4th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, arab world, authors, blogosphere, Blogroll, book, CNAS, COIN, counterinsurgency, cultural intelligence, foreign policy, historians, historiography, history, insurgency, intellectuals, IR, islamic world, islamist, linguistics, mideast, military, military contractor, military reform, national security, reading, Religion, shia, social science, state failure, Theology, theory, war, warriors | Comments Off on Book Talk from Abu Muqawama

• Tweaking Cascio’s Futurist Bibliography

April 30th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, authors, book, cognition, consilience, counterintuitive, culture, fast company, fun, futurism, historians, ideas, intellectuals, Perception, science, science fiction, social science, society, theory, uncertainty | 9 comments

• Epistemology is More Important than Politics

April 27th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, America, analytic, bias, cognition, culture, dystopia, economics, education, emotion, Epistemology, ideas, intellectuals, intelligence, logic, metacognition, Perception, personal, philosophy, politics, psychology, recommended viewing, science, social science, society, theory | 13 comments

• More Mackinlay – On Why the USG Doesn’t “Get” AQ as a “Global Insurgency”

April 19th, 2010 by zen

Posted in 21st century, 4GW, academia, Afghanistan, al qaida, America, analytic, army, book, britain, COIN, connectivity, counterinsurgency, counterintuitive, defense, DIME, Epistemology, extremists, foreign policy, government, hierarchy, history, IC, ideas, illegal combatants, insurgency, intellectuals, IO, islam.insurgency, islamic world, islamist, john nagl, kilcullen, military, military reform, national security, networks, non-state actors, organizations, politics, primary loyalties, security, social science, strategy, Strategy and War, terrorism, theory, tribes, virtual states, war, warriors, web 2.0 | 9 comments

• Metaphors and Analogies: A Two-Edged Sword

April 15th, 2010 by zen

Posted in academia, America, analogy, analytic, attention, brain, cognition, complexity, creativity, disinformation, Epistemology, framing, history, horizontal thinking, ideas, innovation, insight, intellectuals, IO, meme, metacognition, myth, national security, Perception, politics, priming, propaganda, psychology, social science, society, synthesis, teaching, theory | 13 comments