Our enemies and US
Subtitle: America's rivalries and the making of political science
By: Ido Oren.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Political science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Politics and government.; United States -- Foreign relations.
Other titles: America's rivalries and the making of political science.
Description: "Ido Oren challenges American political science's definition of itself as an objective science. The material Oren unearthed in his research into the discipline's ideological nature may discomfit many: Woodrow Wilson's admiration of Prussia's efficient bureaucracy; the favorable review of Mein Kampf published in the American Political Science Review; the involvement of political scientists in village pacification and interrogation of Viet Cong prisoners during the Vietnam War.

Oren reveals the fervently pro-German views of the founder of the discipline, John W. Burgess, who stated that the Teutonic race was politically superior to all others, and he presents evidence of a long-term, intimate relationship between the discipline and the national security agencies of the U.S. government."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : American political science as ideology; title: Imperial Germany; title: Nazi Germany; title: Stalin's Soviet Union; title: Cold War politics; title: Conclusion : toward a reflexive political science.