System Thinking, Social-Science, and Humility in Defending Against Terrorism

Abstract

PREFACE: MORS working group is addressing systems approaches to critical infrastructure protection. But - What's a system? What's "systems thinking?" And what's special about systems thinking in people-centric problems? Analytic paradigms and methods for drawing on the social-science literature? TOPICS: System View in Study of "Deterrence" after 9/11 * Social Science for Counterterrorism, and for Stabilization and Reconstruction * For Discussion, Given Time * Other model types needed * Need for exploratory analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 17, 2010
Accession Number
ADA535477

Entities

People

  • Paul K. Davis

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Adaptive Systems
  • Cold War
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Counterterrorism
  • Deterrence
  • Information Operations
  • Infrastructure
  • Literature
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Social Sciences
  • Systems Approach
  • Terrorism
  • Thinking

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design