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The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the

The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex Paperback / softback - 2003

by Ron Theodore Robin

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Paperback / softback. New. Tells the story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape US views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries.
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Throughout most of the Cold War rumors of an enemy plagued the United States.

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"A first-rate book by a first-rate historian. Among works on the Cold War, Ron Robin's book stands out on account of the sheer quality of its exposition and analysis and because of its attention to the less-studied and distinctly problematical field of behavior sciences. The Making of the Cold War Enemy will attract readers interested in the Cold War and its culture, American intellectual history, and the Korean and Vietnam wars."--Michael S. Sherry, Northwestern University

"Ron Robin has written a fascinating account of the ideology of Cold War America, focusing on the emergence of the behavioral sciences. Most historians take as a given the intellectual assumptions of the Cold War. But few have offered a critical examination of the thinking behind the entire enterprise and/or analyzed in any detail how and why particular concepts became dominant. Robin does both, brilliantly, in this book."--Marilyn B. Young, New York University

About the author

Ron Robin is Professor of History and Dean of Students at Haifa University in Israel. He is the author of Enclaves of America: The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad and The Barbed Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II (both Princeton).