Some Problems of the Peace Conference

Haskins, Charles H.; Lord, Robert Howard

doi:10.4159/harvard.9780674336896

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“…[22] In this regard, then, they generally adopted the Chicago sociologists’ pluralist assessments of capacities for assimilation and potential for self-government. Indeed, through the Inquiry's work, the US delegation sought to create ‘an ethnographic Poland’ around precisely these Chicagoan considerations (Haskins & Lord 1920: Part I).…”

Section: Charisma Outside the Framework: The Inquiry And The New Academic Expertisementioning

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To Build a Notion: US State Department Nation Building Expertise and Postwar Settlements in 20th Century East Central Europe

Riga

Kennedy

2013

Sociological Research Online

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This article offers a contribution to the sociology of social science knowledge practices and expertise through the empirical lens of US nation building policies. Drawing on archival materials, including the State Department's Freedom of Information Act documents, and interviews with key policymakers we offer a comparative historical sociology of the US State Department as a site of nation building knowledge and expertise. In examining the evolving character of nation building expertise in three key moments across the twentieth century, we find that as nation building expertise and its attendant knowledge practices were redefined and institutionally relocated, the essential character of the expertise and data collection practices that were valorized shifted from social scientism in the 1910s to geopolitical empiricism in the 1940s to liberal legalism in the 1990s. This changing character of nation building knowledge practices at the State Department had an effect on the substance of US nation building policy.

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Section: Charisma Outside the Framework: The Inquiry And The New Academic Expertisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…401; ‘Statistical Abstract for Poland’, published in Kracow in 1916, and used by the Inquiry to correlate ‘ethnographical’, religious, and agricultural data, Inquiry Doc. 740, Records of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 1914–1931 (RG 256), NARA; see also discussion in Haskins and Lord (1920: 3–35).…”

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confidence: 99%