Cold War Liberalism : Power in a Time of Emergency / edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes.
In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy, and liberal thought across the North Atlantic world. The essays in this volume examine the history of this important ideology from a variety of perspectives. Whereas most prior works that analyze Cold War liberalism have focused on small groupings of canonical intellectuals, this book explores how the ideology transformed politics, society, and culture writ large. From impacting US foreign policy in the Middle East, to influencing the ideological contours of industrial society, to shaping the urban landscape of Los Angeles, Cold War liberalism left an indelible mark on modern history. This collection also illuminates the degree to which Cold War liberalism continues to shape how intellectuals and policymakers understand and approach the world.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
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: Cambridge University Press
, 2026
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| Pages | 1 online resource (306 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN | 1-009-44869-2 1-009-44870-6 |
| Language | English |
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| Additional Information | Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Cold War Liberalism in Historical Perspective -- Liberalism before Cold War Liberalism -- The Politics of Emergency and the Advent of Cold War Liberalism -- Cold War Liberalism and Empire -- The Afterlives of Cold War Liberalism -- Summary of Volume -- 2 Free World Leadership and the Limits of Liberalism -- 3 Precursors, Practitioners, and Legacies of Cold War Liberalism in the Middle East -- Not Law, but Order -- The Anti-imperial Empire -- Safe for Democracy? -- After Dulles: The Persistence of Cold War Liberalism in the Middle East -- 4 Walter Lippmann: The Cold War Liberal as Conservative Isolationist -- The Neo-isolationist as Cold Warrior, the Cold Warrior as Neo-isolationist -- The Conservative as Liberal, the Liberal as Conservative -- Walter Lippmann and the End of Ideology -- 5 Catholic Internationalism and American Empire: The Cold War Liberalism of William Pfaff -- Commonweal Catholic, Cold War Liberal -- The Emergence of a Critic -- Cold War Afterlives -- 6 The Productive Character: Cold War Liberal Social Psychology from Totalitarianism to Entrepreneurship -- Diagnosing Totalitarianism -- Social Therapeutics -- Preparing the World for Freedom -- 7 Cold War Liberalism or Socialist Revisionism?: Transatlantic Sociology, "Industrial Society," and the Anti-totalitarian Style between France and America -- Sociology between France and America in the Early Cold War, 1945-1955 -- The Industrial Society Convergence: Redefining Socialism, 1955-1968 -- Sociologists and 1968, or the Permanence of the Anti-totalitarian Style? -- 8 "Slavery Old and New": Cold War Liberals in the Global Forced Labor Debate, 1947-1953. U.S. Labor Liberals against Soviet Slavery, 1947-1949 -- American Liberals and French Non-liberals in the Anti-totalitarian Movement, 1949-1951 -- Forced Labor at the UN: Changed Circumstances and New Rhetoric, 1951-1953 -- 9 The City That Could Have Been: Planning Los Angeles for the Postwar Era -- 10 Richard Hofstadter and the Demonology of the Cold War Right -- Hofstadter's Intellectual Origins -- Populism in Hofstadter's History and Politics -- The Problem with Hofstadter -- Hofstadter as Cold War Liberal -- 11 Conservatives in a "Liberal Age": Rethinking the Neoconservative Turn in the 1960s -- Unmaking the Cold War Consensus, 1956-1968 -- The Intellectuals' Interest, 1965-1972 -- Moynihan and Commentary: "In Opposition," 1970-1976 -- Conclusion -- 12 The Noncommunist Boom: The Transformation of Carlos Fuentes and the Democratic Left in Latin America, 1959-1990 -- The Discrete Charm of Cold War Liberalism, 1959-1963 -- The Search for Democratic Socialism, 1964-1968 -- The Long 1970s and the Neoliberal Turn -- Conclusions -- 13 Afterword -- Index. |
| Series Title | Military, War, and Society in Modern American History. |
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