Search
Search Results
-
Science Education in the USA During the Cold War
Several countries have implemented educational changes in recent years, most of which generally happen suddenly and abruptly to appease sectors of...
-
Yugoslav science during the Cold War (1945–1960): socio-economic and ideological impacts of a geopolitical shift
Two ideological views on science dominated the Cold War era: one of a free and apolitical science, and the other emphasizing partisanship in science,...
-
Adam Watson and the structure of the Cold War international society: power structure versus social structure
Nowhere can Adam Watson’s contribution to English School literature be observed better than in his seminal work, The Evolution of International...
-
What’s an Expert, and Why? A comment on Christian Dayé, Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America
Christian Dayé’s new book, Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America (2020), recounts the development of a set of...
-
“White Male Experts, Cultural Insecurity and Knowledge Production in Cold War America”
Christian Dayé provides an important history of RAND and its scientists/experts during the Cold War period. He lifts the veil off of a Cold War...
-
Cold War
In one of the great, unintended consequences of history, the Germans, during First World WarFirst World War, arranged to return Vladimir Lenin to his...
-
Predictive Knowledge Infrastructures and Future-related Expertise Before the Cold War
Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America convincingly demonstrates the importance of RAND’s Delphi method and...
-
Waging the Cold War
This chapter assesses the nature of Cold War rivalry by looking at facets of competition, particularly relating to the military. It focuses on the...
-
The Grudging Modernizer: A Trip to the Middle East and Cold War Social Science
The postwar era is generally recognized as a unique moment of impetuous growth of the social sciences, due to the interest of Western...
-
Cold War Social Science Transnational Entanglements
This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national...
-
Introduction: Cold War Social Science, Transnational Entanglements
As a global phenomenon, the Cold War had a profound influence on international relations, society, culture, and the sciences, including the social...
-
Interpreting the Cold War and the New Cold War in Asia
The Cold War dominated the twentieth century and its effects have been felt in almost every part of the world, even until today. Current issues and...
-
Confronting Cold War Masculinity
Judith Merril, the third editor considered in this study, was also a prolific reviewer and writer of science fiction. She once was an important...
-
Emotions and positive anti-communism during the early Cold War: the case of the Bilderberg Group
In the early 1950s, the Bilderberg Group became one of the first high-level informal transatlantic elite networks of the cold war. This article...
-
The social contract for science and the value-free ideal
While the Value-Free Ideal (VFI) had many precursors, it became a solidified bulwark of normative claims about scientific reasoning and practice in...
-
Studying the Cold War: Core Themes and Concepts—Is There a New International History of the Cold War?
This chapter provides an overview of the development of the academic study and historiography of the Cold War. The first part assesses developments...
-
Yemen’s Decisive Role in the Cold War
The “Cold War” between the United States and the Soviet Union is often disregarded in the analysis of contemporary nations and conflicts in the...
-
Is a New Cold War Coming? (2020)
The United States is moving toward a new Cold War with China. The Sino-US relationship is already competitive, and China’s attitude should be to seek...
-
Bloodsuckers from Beyond: Cold War Era Space Vampires of the Cinema
Like other gothic horror monsters of the screen, the film vampire has received much in the way of critical attention over the span of the past...
-
Ben Shapiro, Higher Education, and the New Cold War McCarthyism
This chapter uses a psychoanalytic mode of rhetorical analysis to examine how universities have become the central site for an updated form of Cold...