Solovey, Dayé: Cold War Social Science

Serendipities, 2021

Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements, 2021

This includes the front matter - Title page, Foreword by Odd Arne Westad, TOC, and Introduction by Solovey & Daye

Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements, 2021

Includes front matter - title page, table of contents, author bios, and Foreword by Odd Arne Westad - and Chapter 1 by Solovey and Daye (pp. 1-41). This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and national aspirations, the studies gathered here open up new lines of transnational investigation. Considering developments in a wide array of fields – anthropology, development studies, economics, education, political science, psychology, science studies, and sociology – that involved the movement of people, projects, funding, and ideas across diverse national contexts, this volume pushes scholars to rethink certain fundamental points about how we should understand – and thus how we should study – Cold War social science itself.

Journal of Cold War Studies, 2023

Laboratorium, 2023

Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature, 2012

"Cold War Social Science: Specter, Reality, or Useful Concept?" explains how the contributions in the edited book by Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens, Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature (2012) address central historiographic questions about how the Cold War shaped the social sciences and vice versa. I also map out how the contributed essays engage with three broad themes that were central during the Cold War but whose importance also transcends that era: efforts to reform the processes of knowledge production in the social sciences; the debate over the role of the United States in promoting or impeding liberal democracy and the position of the social scientists in this debate; and long-standing discussions about human nature and social scientist's contributions to these discussions.

2016

Mark Solovey and Hamilton Cravens (eds.), Cold War Social Science: Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2014 First paperback ed., xvii + 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-38835-3 Price: € 31