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Media Coverage of Space Science and Exploration
Very little research exists on news media coverage of space science and exploration compared with other scientific topics despite widespread public...
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Perceptions of the war in Ukraine: how the Russian propaganda works outside the west
The symposium is motivated by the question of how the war in Ukraine is ‘framed’ and ‘narrated’ in media outside the West. It aims to shed light on...
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Social Science and Humanities in Future University
A strong argument for the need of a systematic road map to the Universities of the Future, in the context of radical disruptions such as...
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Game Theory and Social Science
The place of game theory in contemporary scholarship is problematic. Although its inventors have presented it by the names “Theory of Games and...
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The Paradigm Shift of Political Science from Being “Change-oriented” to “Governance-oriented:” A Perspective on History of Political Science
The history of political philosophy serves as a valuable resource for the current research paradigms in political science. In comparative terms, the...
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The Poetics of Double-Talk: John Berryman’s Dream Songs as Cold War Testimonials
This chapter examines John Berryman’s Dream Songs as documents that position their speaker as a witness to, and often subject of, Cold War...
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A new innovative method to measure the cost of war: future with fewer conflicts via harm reduction approaches
BackgroundThe destruction of World War I (WWI) and World War II (WWII) changed the world forever. In this analysis, the economic costs of WWI and...
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The Food Crisis in the New Cold War Era and Korea’s Response
The world food situation is worsening in the twenty-first century. The global food crisis is increasingly visible due to frequent and massive climate...
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Planned Economies, Free Markets and the Social Sciences: The Cold War Origins of the “Knowledge Society”
During the Cold War, the place of knowledge, planning, and social science expertise in modern societies emerged as the focus of a momentous debate....
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‘So We’re Not Enemies?’: Spy Fiction and the End of the Cold War
The end of the Cold War offered an opportunity for spy fiction to move away from strict conventions and tropes that were in real danger of making the...
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Social Conflict
This chapter summarizes research on the relationship between inequality and conflict over the past three decades. The end of the Cold War marked a...
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The Second Cold War and the Crisis of the Global Order
The essence of globalization was the integration of China in the world market. China, however, did not become a free, democratic state. On the...
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Behice Boran (1910–1987): A Committed Communist Woman in Cold War Turkey
This chapter is a biographical study of Behice Boran (1910–1987), the most prominent communist woman in the history of modern Turkey, from a feminist...
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How Politically Motivated Social Media and Lack of Political Diversity Corrupt Science
We describe two sources of potential ideological bias in social science research. The first is the so-called post-publication-peer-review (PPPR)...
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A battle for foreign perceptions: Ukraine’s country image in the 2022 war with Russia
This paper examines the 2022 War in Ukraine through the conceptual lens of country image within a broader framework of public diplomacy, soft power,...
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Studying War Propaganda
The chapter ‘Studying War Propaganda’ discusses war propaganda in depth. It shows that although the public interest in understanding propaganda...
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Social Character of Science and Its Connection to Epistemic Reliability
Scientific research is a human endeavour, performed by communities of people. Disproportionate focus on only some of the features related to this...
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Bridgman and the normative independence of science: an individual physicist in the shadow of the bomb
Physicist Percy Bridgman has been taken by Heather Douglas to be an exemplar defender of an untenable value-free ideal for science. This picture is...
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Transnational Constructions of Social Scientific Personae during the Cold War: The Case of Comparative Politics
This chapter shows how students of comparative politics embraced certain techniques and operations of knowing against the background of the Cold War,...