LEADER 04287nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910455249103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-25922-9 010 $a9786612259227 010 $a1-4008-3030-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400830305 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788595 035 $a(EBL)457893 035 $a(OCoLC)436093904 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000196010 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11203812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196010 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10131258 035 $a(PQKB)11479968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457893 035 $a(OCoLC)646819283 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36426 035 $a(DE-B1597)446182 035 $a(OCoLC)979881592 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400830305 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457893 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10324000 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL225922 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788595 100 $a20000719d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe making of the Cold War enemy$b[electronic resource] $eculture and politics in the military-intellectual complex /$fRon Robin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-01171-0 311 $a0-691-11455-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAbbreviations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tINTRODUCTION: Rumors of an Enemy -- $tPART ONE: DEFINING THE PARADIGM -- $tPART TWO: NORMAL SCIENCE -- $tPART THREE: CRISIS -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aAt 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 behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. 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 Vietnam 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. 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aResearch institutes$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIntellectuals$zUnited States$xPolitical activity$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xForeign relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 615 0$aResearch institutes$xHistory 615 0$aIntellectuals$xPolitical activity$xHistory 676 $a973.92/01/9 700 $aRobin$b Ron Theodore$01032514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455249103321 996 $aThe making of the Cold War enemy$92471021 997 $aUNINA