Silvert discusses the Chilean reaction well and convincingly deplores the present state of amateurism in Latin American area studies. Blumer and Nisbet devastatingly attack the involved social scientists as naively seduced and ethically corrupted by Camelot, arguing that as a research project it was poorly designed, biased in favor of the status quo, and predicated on all sorts of retreats from strict academic standards.
Five of the selections included argue the merits of government-sponsored social science research. The best, by Boguslaw, states that the critical question is not the source of financial support, but rather the conditions associated with it, and suggests that under certain conditions foundation aid and university grants can be just as insidious as government sponsorship.
This type of book will probably reinforce the original predispositions of the reader. To ventilate the issues more thoroughly, the editor might better have organized it by topics. This approach would have necessitated cutting apart some articles. But at least one could have systematically compared the pros and cons of issues that keep coming up throughout the book—e.
Also this approach would have allowed the social science participants in Camelot to have their say on all of the questions raised. This reviewer finds the collective portrait of the participants somewhat pallid. If some of the leading social scientists were involved in the Project, if they committed grave offenses, and if there should be academic censoring, as Nisbet wants, then what we need is a muckraking book, with names mentioned, positions taken, and the airing of dirty laundry.
Instead we have a piece of academic gentility. Sign In or Create an Account. Advanced Search. User Tools. Sign In. Skip Nav Destination Article Navigation. Book Review February 01 Tomasek Robert D. This Site. Hispanic American Historical Review 49 1 : — Volume 49, Issue 1. Previous Article Next Article. View Metrics. Though two years have passed since Project Camelot was laid to rest, similar strategic military research not covered in Horowitz's book is still going on.
Recent social science military intelligence studies on Latin America range from investigations of the changing role of the military in Latin American society and protection of the Panama Canal, to potential insurgency threats in Central and South America.
In the non-military sphere, all aspects of society are explored. Studies include an Agency for International Development AID sponsored projection of manpower needs for Latin America, and studies on birth control, land reform, the Indian problem and background investigations for U. CRESS counterinsurgency studies include: 1. Fifty-seven case studies of counterinsurgency in the 20th century three volumes. Project Agile's chief investigator, Hans Weigert, has already produced: 1.
Counterinsurgency Honduras; 3. Counterinsurgency Peru. Seymour Martin Lipset, the reknowned Berkeley sociologist, is writing on "Military Planning and Some Implications of National Development," a cross-national study of students' contributions to stability or instability in a nation, and an examination of the development of educational institutions and their relationship to the modernization process in Latin America.
The Air Force has contracted Hebrew University in Israel for "Innovation, Social Change and Institutionalization," a study of conditions facilitating or impeding the acceptance of the modern Western way of life.
Selected Third World countries' successes or failures to bring about orderly change will be measured against the Israeli experience.
Apparently nothing but the most superficial lessons were culled from Project Camelot. The conscience and consciousness of the social scientist seems to have remained essentially untouched. Like this article? Support our work. D onate now. Search form Search.
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