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The theory of the strategy of conflict--of how to constrain, coerce, deter & otherwise influence an enemy or partner through his expectations, & how our behavior will be related to his--is poorly developed. There is scope for such a theory, one that would unify concepts like deterrence in widely diff fields, & that could benefit from the similarities & analogies among diff areas of conflict. A well-formulated theory can help to resolve some paradoxes; most of them result from the fact that, in constraining an enemy by working on his expectations of how we will respond, it is not invariably an advantage for us to have complete freedom of choice, perfect knowledge, etc. Various aspects of deterrrence, limited war, brinkmanship, arms races, or arms agreements based on the admitted premise of mistrust, may be clarified by such a theory. The theory itself would apparently be a mixture of game theory, org theory, communication theory, theory of evidence, theory of choice & theory of collective decision. IPSA.

The article presents the scientific biography of L.M. Drobizheva (1933–2021), who headed the Moscow School of Ethnic Sociology for many years. The article reveals the stages of the formation of ethnosociology in USSR and later in Russia — from its origin in the late 1960s as a method of field ethnographic research aimed at studying the ethno-social processes of Soviet society, to the formation by the end of the second decade of the XXI century as a branch sociological discipline that studies the processes and phenomena that arise in an ethnically marked social space. The article describes the transformation of the methodological approaches of the Moscow ethno-sociological school, the outstanding contribution of L.M. Drobizheva to the formation of the scientific method of the School, and its connection with social practice.

Dr. Chris Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D President and COO of Discovery Democracy LLC Dr. Eric Haseltine, Ph.D. Chairman of the Board of the US Technology Leadership Council Former CTO of the US Intelligence Community Former Director of Research at NSA Lecture Sponsor: Louisiana Tech University