Democracy in Exile
eBook - ePub

Democracy in Exile

Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Democracy in Exile

Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual

About this book

In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner explores the life of Hans Speier, one of the most significant figures in the history of U.S. defense policy.

Bessner traces Speier's intellectual development from Weimar Germany to the Cold War United States, revealing how his European roots shaped the expert-driven approach to foreign policymaking that American elites institutionalized during and after World War II. A key figure in a transatlantic network of émigré policymakers and analysts, Speier helped establish novel institutions such as the RAND Corporation that transformed how US foreign policy was made.

Democracy in Exile highlights how social scientists like Speier left academia to create a "military-intellectual complex" that insulated American decision making from public opinion and that continues to shape US defense policy today.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Democracy, Expertise, and U.S. Foreign Policy
  4. 1. Masses and Marxism in Weimar Germany
  5. 2. The Social Role of the Intellectual Exile
  6. 3. Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Democracy in Crisis
  7. 4. Psychological Warfare in Theory and Practice
  8. 5. The Making of a Defense Intellectual
  9. 6. The Adviser
  10. 7. The Institution Builder
  11. 8. Social Science and Its Discontents
  12. Conclusion: Speier, Expertise, and Democracy after 1960
  13. Abbreviations
  14. Archival and Source Abbreviations
  15. Notes
  16. Archives Cited
  17. Index