Blind oracles : intellectuals and war from Kennan to Kissinger /
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 State...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007] ©2006 |
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Table of Contents:
- The social rule of the man of knowledge
- Scientific management and war, 1910-1960
- Theorists of war, 1945-1953
- RAND in opposition, 1946-1961
- Accented and unaccented realism, 1946-1961
- RAND and the Kennedy administration, 1961-1962
- Cuba and Nassau, 1962
- Intellectuals in power, 1961-1966
- The Kennedy school of government, 1964-1971
- The Pentagon papers
- Henry Kissinger
- Diplomats on foreign policy, 1976-2001.