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BL
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632177
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Robin, Ron Theodore.
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| Title & Author
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The making of the Cold War enemy : : culture and politics in the military-intellectual complex /\ Ron Robin.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, c2001.
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xvi, 277 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0691011710
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: 9780691011714
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Rumors of an enemy -- PART ONE: 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 -- PART TWO: 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 POWs in Korea -- Prison camps and culture wars: the Korean brainwashing controversy -- PART THREE: CRISIS: Vietnam: from "Hearts and minds" to "Rational choice" -- Paradigm lost: the Project Camelot Affair -- Epilogue: Report from Iron Mountain and beyond.
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| Abstract
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"Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietman era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States." "Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy."--Jacket.
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Cold War-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Research institutes-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Intellectuals-- Political activity-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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United States, Foreign relations, 1945-1989.
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United States, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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United States, Foreign relations, Asia.
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Asia, Foreign relations, United States.
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| LC Classification
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E744.R63 2001
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