The making of the Cold War enemy :: culture and politics in the military-intellectual complex /

At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they i...

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Main Author: Robin, Ron Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2003.
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Online Access:DE-862
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Summary:At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavio
Item Description:Originally published: 2001.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 277 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400830305
1400830303

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