What Is the Social Responsibility of Social Scientists to Influence National Security Affairs?

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Abstract

Mainstream scholars of IR favor policy-relevant research, that is the agenda to influence government policymakers by offering policy recommendations. In this article, I offer a different perspective by presenting alternative arguments about social scientists’ responsibility to influence. By drawing on themes of public sociology and critical sociology, security studies and public policy, I argue that the core of this responsibility is to seek to influence policy via engagement with the public rather than with policymakers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7-19
Number of pages13
JournalArmed Forces and Society
Volume49
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

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Keywords

  • critical sociology
  • deliberation
  • democracy
  • public policy
  • public sociology

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