infrastruktura: Project Camelot

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Project Camelot was the code name of a counterinsurgency study begun by the United States Army in 1964. The full name of the project was Methods for Predicting and Influencing Social Change and Internal War Potential. The project was executed by the Special Operations Research Office (SORO) at American University, which assembled an eclectic team of psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and other intellectuals to analyze the society and culture of numerous target countries, especially in Latin America. The goal of the project was to enhance the Army's ability to predict and influence social developments in foreign countries. The motive was described by an internal memo o…

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The great Project Camelot: Implications and repercussions of a controversy in social sciences. The paper examines the relationship between social sciences and the military-industrial complex in the United States of America during the Cold War era. Based on the review of the most representative texts on this problematique, the author?s main goal is to prove the plausibility of critical view according to which the social sciences have been instrumentalized during the Cold War by centers of power such as CIA and the Pentagon in order to accomplish certain strategic goals. The main focus of our interest is Project Camelot, an ambitous research program which was canceled in the midst of the inte…

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Project Camelot. Project Camelot was an ambitious social science project that came into existence in late 1964. The goal of the project was to assess the causes of war and to identify the actions that the American government could take to prevent such wars. The period between the introduction of Project Camelot and its ultimate demise raises interesting questions about the relationship between the American government, the military, and social sciences.