Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
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Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
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20th century,americas,gender studies,history,international and world politics,men,politics and government,politics and social sciences,public affairs and policy,social sciences, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War), This provocative book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers - men who prided themselves on "hardheaded pragmatism" and shunned "fuzzy idealism" - could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The answer, he argues, lies not simply in the imperatives of anticommunist ideology or in any reasonable calculation of national interest. At least as decisive in determining the form and content of American Cold War foreign policy was the common background and shared values of its makers, especially their deeply ingrained sense of upper-class masculinity. Dean begins by examining the institutions that shaped the members of the U.S. foreign policy establishment - all-male prep schools, Ivy League universities, collegiate secret societies, and exclusive men's clubs - that instilled stoic ideals of competition, duty, and loyalty. Service in elite military units during World War II further reinforced this pattern of socialization, eventually creating an "imperial brotherhood" imbued with a common global vision. More than that, according to Dean, the commitment to tough-minded masculinity shared by these men encouraged the pursuit of policies that were aggressively interventionist abroad and intolerant of dissent at home. Applying his gendered analysis to the McCarthy era, Dean reveals how the purge of suspected homosexuals in the State Department not only paralleled the repression of the poli.
20th century,americas,gender studies,history,international and world politics,men,politics and government,politics and social sciences,public affairs and policy,social sciences, Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War), This provocative book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers - men who prided themselves on "hardheaded pragmatism" and shunned "fuzzy idealism" - could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The answer, he argues, lies not simply in the imperatives of anticommunist ideology or in any reasonable calculation of national interest. At least as decisive in determining the form and content of American Cold War foreign policy was the common background and shared values of its makers, especially their deeply ingrained sense of upper-class masculinity. Dean begins by examining the institutions that shaped the members of the U.S. foreign policy establishment - all-male prep schools, Ivy League universities, collegiate secret societies, and exclusive men's clubs - that instilled stoic ideals of competition, duty, and loyalty. Service in elite military units during World War II further reinforced this pattern of socialization, eventually creating an "imperial brotherhood" imbued with a common global vision. More than that, according to Dean, the commitment to tough-minded masculinity shared by these men encouraged the pursuit of policies that were aggressively interventionist abroad and intolerant of dissent at home. Applying his gendered analysis to the McCarthy era, Dean reveals how the purge of suspected homosexuals in the State Department not only paralleled the repression of the poli.
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Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
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