Science Of Coercion

Author : Christopher Simpson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781497672703

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Science of Coercion by Christopher Simpson Pdf

A provocative and eye-opening study of the essential role the US military and the Central Intelligence Agency played in the advancement of communication studies during the Cold War era, now with a new introduction by Robert W. McChesney and a new preface by the author Since the mid-twentieth century, the great advances in our knowledge about the most effective methods of mass communication and persuasion have been visible in a wide range of professional fields, including journalism, marketing, public relations, interrogation, and public opinion studies. However, the birth of the modern science of mass communication had surprising and somewhat troubling midwives: the military and covert intelligence arms of the US government. In this fascinating study, author Christopher Simpson uses long-classified documents from the Pentagon, the CIA, and other national security agencies to demonstrate how this seemingly benign social science grew directly out of secret government-funded research into psychological warfare. It reveals that many of the most respected pioneers in the field of communication science were knowingly complicit in America’s Cold War efforts, regardless of their personal politics or individual moralities, and that their findings on mass communication were eventually employed for the purposes of propaganda, subversion, intimidation, and counterinsurgency. An important, thought-provoking work, Science of Coercion shines a blazing light into a hitherto remote and shadowy corner of Cold War history.

Author : Christopher Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cold War
ISBN : OCLC:666964702

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Author : Stuart A. Kirk,Tomi Gomory,David Cohen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781412849760

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Mad Science by Stuart A. Kirk,Tomi Gomory,David Cohen Pdf

When it comes to understanding and treating madness, distortions of research are not rare, misinterpretation of data is not isolated, and bogus claims of success are not voiced by isolated researchers seeking aggrandizement. This book's detailed analyses of coercion and community treatment, diagnosis, and psychopharmacology reveals that these characteristics of bad science are endemic, institutional, and protected in psychiatry. This is mad science. Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are not based on convincing research, but on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American mental health, including the remaking of coercion into scientific psychiatric treatment in the community, the adoption of an unscientific diagnostic system that now controls the distribution of services, and how drug treatments have failed to improve the mental health outcome. This book provides an engaging and readable scientific and social critique of current mental health practices. The authors are scholars, researchers, and clinicians who have written extensively about community care, diagnosis, and psychoactive drugs. Mad Science is a must read for all specialists in the field as well as for the informed public.

Author : Daniel Byman,Matthew Waxman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521007801

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The Dynamics of Coercion by Daniel Byman,Matthew Waxman Pdf

This book examines why some attempts to strong-arm an adversary work while others do not.

Author : Douglas Rushkoff
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 157322829X

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Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff Pdf

Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt to take away our ability to make rational decisions, Rushkoff delivers a bracing account of media ecology today, consumerism in America, and why we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.

Author : Randy Thornhill,Craig T. Palmer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262700832

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A Natural History of Rape by Randy Thornhill,Craig T. Palmer Pdf

A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape. In this controversial book, Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer use evolutionary biology to explain the causes of rape and to recommend new approaches to its prevention. According to Thornhill and Palmer, evolved adaptation of some sort gives rise to rape; the main evolutionary question is whether rape is an adaptation itself or a by-product of other adaptations. Regardless of the answer, Thornhill and Palmer note, rape circumvents a central feature of women's reproductive strategy: mate choice. This is a primary reason why rape is devastating to its victims, especially young women. Thornhill and Palmer address, and claim to demolish scientifically, many myths about rape bred by social science theory over the past twenty-five years. The popular contention that rapists are not motivated by sexual desire is, they argue, scientifically inaccurate. Although they argue that rape is biological, Thornhill and Palmer do not view it as inevitable. Their recommendations for rape prevention include teaching young males not to rape, punishing rape more severely, and studying the effectiveness of "chemical castration." They also recommend that young women consider the biological causes of rape when making decisions about dress, appearance, and social activities. Rape could cease to exist, they argue, only in a society knowledgeable about its evolutionary causes. The book includes a useful summary of evolutionary theory and a comparison of evolutionary biology's and social science's explanations of human behavior. The authors argue for the greater explanatory power and practical usefulness of evolutionary biology. The book is sure to stir up discussion both on the specific topic of rape and on the larger issues of how we understand and influence human behavior.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458731340

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Choice & Coercion (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Murray Sidman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015019837197

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Coercion and Its Fallout by Murray Sidman Pdf

Author : Melanie W. Sisson,James A. Siebens,Barry M. Blechman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000056839

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Military Coercion and US Foreign Policy by Melanie W. Sisson,James A. Siebens,Barry M. Blechman Pdf

This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-Cold War era (1991–2018). The volume reveals that despite its status as sole superpower during the post-Cold War period, US efforts to coerce other states failed as often as they succeeded. In the coming decades, the United States will face states that are more capable and creative, willing to challenge its interests and able to take advantage of missteps and vulnerabilities. By using lessons derived from in-depth case studies and statistical analysis of an original dataset of more than 100 coercive incidents in the post-Cold War era, this book generates insight into how the US military can be used to achieve policy goals. Specifically, it provides guidance about the ways in which, and the conditions under which, the US armed forces can work in concert with economic and diplomatic elements of US power to create effective coercive strategies. This book will be of interest to students of US national security, US foreign policy, strategic studies and International Relations in general.

Author : Kelly M. Greenhill,Peter Krause
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190846336

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Coercion by Kelly M. Greenhill,Peter Krause Pdf

In 'Coercion', leading international relations scholars Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause have gathered together an eminent cast of contributors to produce what promises to be a field-shaping work on one of IR's most essential subjects: coercion, whether in the form of compellence, deterrence, or a mix of the two. The volume moves beyond these traditional premises and examines the critical issue of coercion in the 21st century, capturing fresh theoretical and policy relevant developments and drawing upon data and cases from across time and around the globe.

Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197760154

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Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction by Antulio J. Echevarria II Pdf

Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction adapts Clausewitz's framework to highlight the dynamic relationship between the main elements of strategy: purpose, method, and means. Drawing on historical examples, Antulio J. Echevarria discusses the major types of military strategy and how emerging technologies are affecting them. This second edition has been updated to include an expanded chapter on manipulation through cyberwarfare and new further reading.

Author : Janeen M. Klinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030112516

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Social Science and National Security Policy by Janeen M. Klinger Pdf

This book examines how deterrence, coercion and modernization theory has informed U.S. policy, addressing why former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s famous description of the Vietnam War as the “social scientist’s war” is so accurate. By tracing the evolution of ties between social scientists and the government beginning in World War I and continuing through the Second World War and the early Cold War, the narrative highlights the role of institutions like the RAND Corporation, the Social Science Research Council and MIT’s Center for International Studies that facilitate these ties while providing a home for the development of theory. The author compares and contrasts the ideas of Bernard Brodie, Herman Kahn, Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Schelling, Gabriel Almond, Lucian Pye and Walt Rostow, among others, and offers a cautionary tale concerning the difficulties and problems encountered when applying social science theory to national security policy.

Author : Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495920

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Social Cohesion and Legal Coercion by Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff Pdf

The book is a critical analysis of the work of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx. It focuses on their separate analyses of the role of law in society, pointing out their faults and errors, and the resultant impact on modern social science. The author takes issue with Weber's work on rationality, with Durkheim's work on repressive and restitutive law, and with Marx's work on social justice and law as part of the super-structure. In each section of the book he shows the implications that flow from a re-assessment and re-interpretation of their work for an understanding of society. The book is multi-disciplinary, making ample reference to law, sociology, anthropology, history, religion, ecology, criminology, philosophy and economics. Its various chapters discuss a wide range of themes, including rationality, tradition, science, political authority, conflict resolution, community, justice and altruism.

Author : Thomas Szasz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412808958

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Coercion as Cure by Thomas Szasz Pdf

Understanding the history of psychiatry requires an accurate view of its function and purpose. In this provocative new study, Szasz challenges conventional beliefs about psychiatry. He asserts that, in fact, psychiatrists are not concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bona fide illnesses. Psychiatric tradition, social expectation, and the law make it clear that coercion is the profession's determining characteristic. Psychiatrists may "diagnose" or "treat" people without their consent or even against their clearly expressed wishes, and these involuntary psychiatric interventions are as different as are sexual relations between consenting adults and the sexual violence we call "rape." But the point is not merely the difference between coerced and consensual psychiatry, but to contrast them. The term "psychiatry" ought to be applied to one or the other, but not both. As long as psychiatrists and society refuse to recognize this, there can be no real psychiatric historiography. The coercive character of psychiatry was more apparent in the past than it is now. Then, insanity was synonymous with unfitness for liberty. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a new type of psychiatric relationship developed, when people experiencing so-called "nervous symptoms," sought help. This led to a distinction between two kinds of mental diseases: neuroses and psychoses. Persons who complained about their own behavior were classified as neurotic, whereas persons about whose behavior others complained were classified as psychotic. The legal, medical, psychiatric, and social denial of this simple distinction and its far-reaching implications undergirds the house of cards that is modern psychiatry. Coercion as Cure is the most important book by Szasz since his landmark The Myth of Mental Illness.

Author : Joseph Torigian
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Authoritarianism
ISBN : 9780300254235

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Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion by Joseph Torigian Pdf

How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores "Joseph Torigian's stellar research and personal interviews have produced a brilliant, meticulous study. It fundamentally undermines what political scientists have presumed to be the way Chinese Communist and Soviet politics operate."--Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine The political successions in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao, respectively, are often explained as triumphs of inner‑party democracy, leading to a victory of "reformers" over "conservatives" or "radicals." In traditional thinking, Leninist institutions provide competitors a mechanism for debating policy and making promises, stipulate rules for leadership selection, and prevent the military and secret police from playing a coercive role. Here, Joseph Torigian argues that the post-cult of personality power struggles in history's two greatest Leninist regimes were instead shaped by the politics of personal prestige, historical antagonisms, backhanded political maneuvering, and violence. Mining newly discovered material from Russia and China, Torigian challenges the established historiography and suggests a new way of thinking about the nature of power in authoritarian regimes.