Making of the Cold War Enemy Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex

Name: Making of the Cold War Enemy Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex
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ISBN: 9780691114552

ISBN-10: 0691114552

ISBN-13: 9780691114552

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ron Theodore Robin

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At the height of the Cold War, the US employed a group of psychologists, sociologists and political scientists to blueprint enemy behaviour. This work tells the story of the rise of behavioural scientists within the US government and the effect of their 'American' assumptions about human behaviour.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/26/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Rumors of an Enemy



Defining the Paradigm



Inventing the Behavioral Sciences



The Culture of Think Tanks



Psychopolitics and Primary Groups: Theories of Culture and Society in Cold War Academia



Normal Science



The Obstinate Audience: The Art of Information Management in the Cold War



The War of Ideas: Ideology and Science in Psychological Warfare



Deus ex Clinica: Psychopolitics and Elite Studies of Communism



Collective Behavior in Totalitarian Societies: The Analysis of Enemy POWs in Korea



Prison Camps and Culture Wars: The Korean Brainwashing Controversy



Crisis



Vietnam: From "Hearts and Minds" to "Rational Choice"



Paradigm Lost: The Project Camelot Affair



Epilogue: Report from Iron Mountain and Beyond


Notes


Index