Cold War liberalism : power in a time of emergency / edited by Daniel Bessner, Michael Brenes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bessner, Daniel, 1984- editor.

Brenes, Michael, editor.

Series:

Military, war, and society in modern American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.

Liberalism.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

Liberalism--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: cold war liberalism in historical perspective / Daniel Bessner

Free world leadership and the limits of liberalism / Peter Slezkine

Precursors, practitioners, and legacies of cold war liberalism in the middle east / Joshua Donovan

Walter lippmann: the cold war liberal as conservative isolationist / Mark Edwards

Catholic internationalism and american empire: the cold war liberalism of william pfaff / Christopher Schaefer

The productive character: cold war liberal social psychology from totalitarianism to entrepreneurship / Erik Baker

Cold war liberalism or socialist revisionism? transatlantic sociology, “industrial society,” and the anti-totalitarian style between france and america / David Sessions

“Slavery old and new”: cold war liberals in the global forced labor debate, 1947–1953 / Emma Kuby

The city that could have been: planning los angeles for the postwar era / Courtney Rawlings

Richard hofstadter and the demonology of the cold war right / Daniel Smith and Anton Jäger

Conservatives in a “liberal age”: rethinking the neoconservative turn in the 1960s / Michael Brenes and Michael Franczak

The noncommunist boom: the transformation of carlos fuentes and the democratic left in latin america, 1959–1990 / Andrés Sánchez-Padilla

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed February 4, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version : Cold War liberalism,

ISBN:

9781009448703

1009448706

OCLC:

1559963301

Publisher Number:

CIPO000314499

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license