Format:
Online-Ressource (258 p)
ISBN:
9780691133874
Content:
In this trenchant analysis, historian Bruce Kuklick examines the role of intellectuals in foreign policymaking. He recounts the history of the development of ideas about strategy and foreign policy during a critical period in American history: the era of the nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union. The book looks at how the country's foremost thinkers advanced their ideas during this time of United States expansionism, a period that culminated in the Vietnam War and détente with the Soviets. Beginning with George Kennan after World War II, and concluding with Henry
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Citations; INTRODUCTION: The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge; CHAPTER 1: Scientific Management and War, 1910-1960; CHAPTER 2: Theorists of War, 1945-1953; CHAPTER 3: RAND in Opposition, 1946-1961; CHAPTER 4: Accented and Unaccented Realism, 1946-1961; CHAPTER 5: RAND and the Kennedy Administration, 1961-1962; CHAPTER 6: Cuba and Nassau, 1962; CHAPTER 7: Intellectuals in Power, 1961-1966; CHAPTER 8: The Kennedy School of Government, 1964-1971; CHAPTER 9: The Pentagon Papers; CHAPTER 10: Henry Kissinger
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CHAPTER 11: Diplomats on Foreign Policy, 1976-2001Conclusion; Acknowledgments and Methodological Note; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400849468
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691133874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blind Oracles : Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
Language:
English
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