The Weekly Spin, May 21, 2008
Blog Postings
by John H. Brown
Here's why I think that (America-centric) political scientists who have been insulated inside institutions of higher learning and business leaders should NOT be running (American) foreign policy:
...in 1981, Rice received her Ph.D. Her dissertation was published in 1984 by Princeton University Press under the title, Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1963. While the book saw the light of day thanks to a prestigious institution of higher learning, it is rather striking for the current irrelevance of its subject matter. (Neither the Soviet Union nor Czechoslovak army exists today, although nothing in Rice's study anticipated that this would be the case.) It is also full of hollow "poli-sci" prose, as illustrated by this passage from its conclusion:
Examination of the impact of power asymmetries on the development of the nature of domestic institutions may ultimately help us to understand the concepts of power and influence themselves.
The examination of Czechoslovak party-military relations along both dimensions shows quite clearly why models developed in the study of other communist states are inadequate to explain this case. The Czechoslovak party-military apparatus, which closely resembles that of the Soviet Union, does not produce the same pattern of interaction....(click on title link above)
Condoleezza Rice
(assorted biography links)
Condoleezza Rice is the 66th and current United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush; (born November 14 1954).
World Leaders Urge Condoleezza Rice To Take NFL Commissioner's Job
March 23, 2006 -- The Onion
Update:
Blue Girl, Red State has more on Condi
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