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10%OFFIdo Oren - Our Enemies and US: America´s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science - 9780801478949 - V9780801478949
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Our Enemies and US: America´s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science

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Description for Our Enemies and US: America´s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
Ido Oren challenges American political science's definition of itself as an objective science attached to democracy. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478949
SKU
V9780801478949
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About Ido Oren
Ido Oren is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida.

Reviews for Our Enemies and US: America´s Rivalries and the Making of Political Science
Despite the evidence accumulated by Oren, and in the numerous other studies he cites, political science's self-image remains that of a detached, objective, and scientific discipline, untouched by the powers that be. Its principal texts theoretical, methodological, historical do not consider it worthy of note that the discipline is steeped in the political and ideological structures of the American system ... Read more

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