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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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
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2003
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : rumors of an enemy
- pt. 1. 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
- pt. 2. 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
- pt. 3. Crisis.
- Vietnam : from "hearts and minds" to "rational choice"
- Paradigm lost : the Project Camelot affair
- Epilogue : Report from Iron Mountain and beyond.