Daniel Bessner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 377078 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel Bessner |
| PRENOMES | Daniel |
| SOBRENOME | Bessner |
| ASSINATURA | BESSNER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5528-7166 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 63 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Cold War Liberalism
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, s…
A Brief History of Cold War Liberalism
In recent years, a flurry of books that explore the history and theory of liberalism have appeared. Nevertheless, there has been surprisingly little scholarship examining the history of 'Cold War liberalism' — one of the most important instantiations of twentieth-century liberalism — as a phenomenon in and of itself, and the work that has been done has mostly focused on a small coterie of American and Western European intellectuals. This essay is…
Delineating Progressive Grand Strategies
Rethinking the relationship between a US‐based global security architecture and global capitalism
A comment on Felix Mallin and James D. Sidaway's ‘Critical Geoeconomics: A Genealogy of Writing Politics, Economy, and Space’
Foreign Encounters and U.S. Democracy
On December 20, 1940, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his sixteenth fireside chat. With Europe reeling from Nazi Germany’s successful conquest of France, the signing of the Tripartite Pact, and the recently concluded Battle of Britain, Roosevelt implored Americans to build “the great arsenal of democracy” that would aid the United Kingdom in its struggle against Germany.1 A little more than a year later, after the United States…
A Peoples’ Policy for the Americas
What Are Intellectuals Good For
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth
The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has led to significant changes in environmental governance, unleashing an authoritarian, nationalistic, and business-deregulating juggernaut aimed at destroying various forms of environmental protection. We seek to name and explain this juggernaut as the Trumpist Behemoth. Using this terminology, we show how Neumann’s classic 1942 study of the Nazi Behemoth can be used to build a critique of the…
Human Programming
Human Programming will be useful for professors and graduate students interested in Cold War culture and the ways Americans have understood the concept of freedom since 1945. Written by Scott Selisker, a professor of English at the University of Arizona, the book “chart[s] the development of a cinematic, literary, and rhetorical figure” that Selisker terms (per Erich Fromm) “the human automaton” (pp. 2, 4, emphasis in original). As defined by the…
Democracy in Exile
Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read.In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker …
Age of System
Reviewed by: Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science by Hunter Heyck Daniel Bessner (bio) Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science. By Hunter Heyck. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 272. Hardcover $54.95. Hunter Heyck's Age of System is the best single-authored history of the postwar (roughly 1950–75) social sciences presently available. A collection of two new and fou…
Thinking About the U.S. in the World
There has recently been a growing interest among historians of the United States in the world in studying the relationship between intellectuals and foreign policy. Potential reasons for this uptick are not difficult to pinpoint. In particular, the history of U.S. foreign relations since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has highlighted the degree to which intellectuals can profoundly impact foreign and military policy. For example, Paul W…
Nazism, neoliberalism, and the Trumpist challenge to democracy
Trumpism demands that scholars rethink the categories commonly used to critique authoritarian and pro-market regimes. We seek here to contribute to this rethinking with a series of reflections on how the terms “Nazi” and “neoliberal” cannot be used without careful consideration of the ways in which they complicate one another. In particular, we suggest that scholars must be careful about comparing Trumpism to Nazism, because, in the past, the “We…
The Ghosts of Weimar
The Ghosts of Weimar:The Weimar Analogy in American Thought Daniel Bessner (bio) the ghosts of the weimar republic (1918–1933) presently haunt the United States. In manifold news articles and opinion pieces, pundits and thinkers from across the political spectrum wonder whether Donald J. Trump's election indicates that the United States, similar to Weimar before it, is a democracy in decline, fated to be overrun by right-wing reactionaries.1 One …
Secularism in Question
How Realism Waltzed Off
Neorealism is one of the most influential theories of international relations, and its first theorist, Kenneth Waltz, a giant of the discipline. But why did Waltz move from a rather traditional form of classical realist political theory in the 1950s to neorealism in the 1970s? A possible answer is that Waltz's Theory of International Politics was his attempt to reconceive classical realism in a liberal form. Classical realism paid a great deal of…
Organizing Complexity
Historians argue that in the early Cold War an interdisciplinary research culture defined the RAND Corporation. However, a significant epistemological gap divided the members of RAND's Social Science Division (SSD) from the rest of the organization. While the social scientists used qualitative methods, most RAND researchers embraced quantified approaches and derided the social sciences as unscientific. This encouraged RAND's social scientists to …
Murray Rothbard, political strategy, and the making of modern libertarianism
On Black Friday, March 27, 1981, at 9:00 A.M. in San Francisco, the “libertarian” power elite of the Cato Institute, consisting of President Edward H. Crane III and Other Shareholder Charles G. Koc
Rather More than One-Third Had No Jewish Blood
The New School for Social Research's University in Exile accepted more German and European exiled intellectuals than any other American institution of higher education. This paper argues that transnational, cosmopolitan ideological and interest-based affinities shared by left-leaning American progressives and German-Jewish intellectuals enabled the predominantly Jewish University in Exile to become a vibrant intellectual space accepted by the com…
Toward a Theory of Civil-Military Punishment
This article addresses a significant question in American civil-military relations: under what conditions will civilian principals punish military leaders for shirking? In order to inductively derive a theory of civil-military punishment, the authors examine two cases of military shirking where there is little doubt that insubordination occurred. The first case the authors analyze is Douglas MacArthur's insubordination under Harry Truman during t…
Karl Heinzen and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Terror
Scholars have long recognized the importance of Karl Heinzen's Mord und Freiheit in the history of terrorist thought. Yet the translation most scholars have relied on—1881s Murder and Liberty—is incomplete. Our new translation reveals four elements omitted from the 1881 translation. First, Heinzen conceived of terrorism as a transnational phenomenon. Second, he provided a material justification for terrorist tactics. Third, Heinzen viewed terrori…
Major Powers and Peacekeeping
Democracy in Exile
Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read.In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker …
Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth
The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has led to significant changes in environmental governance, unleashing an authoritarian, nationalistic, and business-deregulating juggernaut aimed at destroying various forms of environmental protection. We seek to name and explain this juggernaut as the Trumpist Behemoth. Using this terminology, we show how Neumann’s classic 1942 study of the Nazi Behemoth can be used to build a critique of the…
Nazism, neoliberalism, and the Trumpist challenge to democracy
Trumpism demands that scholars rethink the categories commonly used to critique authoritarian and pro-market regimes. We seek here to contribute to this rethinking with a series of reflections on how the terms “Nazi” and “neoliberal” cannot be used without careful consideration of the ways in which they complicate one another. In particular, we suggest that scholars must be careful about comparing Trumpism to Nazism, because, in the past, the “We…
How Realism Waltzed Off
Neorealism is one of the most influential theories of international relations, and its first theorist, Kenneth Waltz, a giant of the discipline. But why did Waltz move from a rather traditional form of classical realist political theory in the 1950s to neorealism in the 1970s? A possible answer is that Waltz's Theory of International Politics was his attempt to reconceive classical realism in a liberal form. Classical realism paid a great deal of…
Rethinking the relationship between a US‐based global security architecture and global capitalism
A comment on Felix Mallin and James D. Sidaway's ‘Critical Geoeconomics: A Genealogy of Writing Politics, Economy, and Space’
What Are Intellectuals Good For
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Organizing Complexity
Historians argue that in the early Cold War an interdisciplinary research culture defined the RAND Corporation. However, a significant epistemological gap divided the members of RAND's Social Science Division (SSD) from the rest of the organization. While the social scientists used qualitative methods, most RAND researchers embraced quantified approaches and derided the social sciences as unscientific. This encouraged RAND's social scientists to …
Karl Heinzen and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Terror
Scholars have long recognized the importance of Karl Heinzen's Mord und Freiheit in the history of terrorist thought. Yet the translation most scholars have relied on—1881s Murder and Liberty—is incomplete. Our new translation reveals four elements omitted from the 1881 translation. First, Heinzen conceived of terrorism as a transnational phenomenon. Second, he provided a material justification for terrorist tactics. Third, Heinzen viewed terrori…
Murray Rothbard, political strategy, and the making of modern libertarianism
On Black Friday, March 27, 1981, at 9:00 A.M. in San Francisco, the “libertarian” power elite of the Cato Institute, consisting of President Edward H. Crane III and Other Shareholder Charles G. Koc
Human Programming
Human Programming will be useful for professors and graduate students interested in Cold War culture and the ways Americans have understood the concept of freedom since 1945. Written by Scott Selisker, a professor of English at the University of Arizona, the book “chart[s] the development of a cinematic, literary, and rhetorical figure” that Selisker terms (per Erich Fromm) “the human automaton” (pp. 2, 4, emphasis in original). As defined by the…
The Ghosts of Weimar
The Ghosts of Weimar:The Weimar Analogy in American Thought Daniel Bessner (bio) the ghosts of the weimar republic (1918–1933) presently haunt the United States. In manifold news articles and opinion pieces, pundits and thinkers from across the political spectrum wonder whether Donald J. Trump's election indicates that the United States, similar to Weimar before it, is a democracy in decline, fated to be overrun by right-wing reactionaries.1 One …
Rather More than One-Third Had No Jewish Blood
The New School for Social Research's University in Exile accepted more German and European exiled intellectuals than any other American institution of higher education. This paper argues that transnational, cosmopolitan ideological and interest-based affinities shared by left-leaning American progressives and German-Jewish intellectuals enabled the predominantly Jewish University in Exile to become a vibrant intellectual space accepted by the com…
Toward a Theory of Civil-Military Punishment
This article addresses a significant question in American civil-military relations: under what conditions will civilian principals punish military leaders for shirking? In order to inductively derive a theory of civil-military punishment, the authors examine two cases of military shirking where there is little doubt that insubordination occurred. The first case the authors analyze is Douglas MacArthur's insubordination under Harry Truman during t…
Major Powers and Peacekeeping
Karl Heinzen and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Terror
Scholars have long recognized the importance of Karl Heinzen's Mord und Freiheit in the history of terrorist thought. Yet the translation most scholars have relied on—1881s Murder and Liberty—is incomplete. Our new translation reveals four elements omitted from the 1881 translation. First, Heinzen conceived of terrorism as a transnational phenomenon. Second, he provided a material justification for terrorist tactics. Third, Heinzen viewed terrori…
Rather More than One-Third Had No Jewish Blood
The New School for Social Research's University in Exile accepted more German and European exiled intellectuals than any other American institution of higher education. This paper argues that transnational, cosmopolitan ideological and interest-based affinities shared by left-leaning American progressives and German-Jewish intellectuals enabled the predominantly Jewish University in Exile to become a vibrant intellectual space accepted by the com…
Toward a Theory of Civil-Military Punishment
This article addresses a significant question in American civil-military relations: under what conditions will civilian principals punish military leaders for shirking? In order to inductively derive a theory of civil-military punishment, the authors examine two cases of military shirking where there is little doubt that insubordination occurred. The first case the authors analyze is Douglas MacArthur's insubordination under Harry Truman during t…
Murray Rothbard, political strategy, and the making of modern libertarianism
On Black Friday, March 27, 1981, at 9:00 A.M. in San Francisco, the “libertarian” power elite of the Cato Institute, consisting of President Edward H. Crane III and Other Shareholder Charles G. Koc
How Realism Waltzed Off
Neorealism is one of the most influential theories of international relations, and its first theorist, Kenneth Waltz, a giant of the discipline. But why did Waltz move from a rather traditional form of classical realist political theory in the 1950s to neorealism in the 1970s? A possible answer is that Waltz's Theory of International Politics was his attempt to reconceive classical realism in a liberal form. Classical realism paid a great deal of…
Organizing Complexity
Historians argue that in the early Cold War an interdisciplinary research culture defined the RAND Corporation. However, a significant epistemological gap divided the members of RAND's Social Science Division (SSD) from the rest of the organization. While the social scientists used qualitative methods, most RAND researchers embraced quantified approaches and derided the social sciences as unscientific. This encouraged RAND's social scientists to …
Secularism in Question
Thinking About the U.S. in the World
There has recently been a growing interest among historians of the United States in the world in studying the relationship between intellectuals and foreign policy. Potential reasons for this uptick are not difficult to pinpoint. In particular, the history of U.S. foreign relations since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has highlighted the degree to which intellectuals can profoundly impact foreign and military policy. For example, Paul W…
Nazism, neoliberalism, and the Trumpist challenge to democracy
Trumpism demands that scholars rethink the categories commonly used to critique authoritarian and pro-market regimes. We seek here to contribute to this rethinking with a series of reflections on how the terms “Nazi” and “neoliberal” cannot be used without careful consideration of the ways in which they complicate one another. In particular, we suggest that scholars must be careful about comparing Trumpism to Nazism, because, in the past, the “We…
The Ghosts of Weimar
The Ghosts of Weimar:The Weimar Analogy in American Thought Daniel Bessner (bio) the ghosts of the weimar republic (1918–1933) presently haunt the United States. In manifold news articles and opinion pieces, pundits and thinkers from across the political spectrum wonder whether Donald J. Trump's election indicates that the United States, similar to Weimar before it, is a democracy in decline, fated to be overrun by right-wing reactionaries.1 One …
Human Programming
Human Programming will be useful for professors and graduate students interested in Cold War culture and the ways Americans have understood the concept of freedom since 1945. Written by Scott Selisker, a professor of English at the University of Arizona, the book “chart[s] the development of a cinematic, literary, and rhetorical figure” that Selisker terms (per Erich Fromm) “the human automaton” (pp. 2, 4, emphasis in original). As defined by the…
Democracy in Exile
Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read.In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker …
Age of System
Reviewed by: Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science by Hunter Heyck Daniel Bessner (bio) Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science. By Hunter Heyck. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 272. Hardcover $54.95. Hunter Heyck's Age of System is the best single-authored history of the postwar (roughly 1950–75) social sciences presently available. A collection of two new and fou…
What Are Intellectuals Good For
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reaction, Resilience, and the Trumpist Behemoth
The election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency has led to significant changes in environmental governance, unleashing an authoritarian, nationalistic, and business-deregulating juggernaut aimed at destroying various forms of environmental protection. We seek to name and explain this juggernaut as the Trumpist Behemoth. Using this terminology, we show how Neumann’s classic 1942 study of the Nazi Behemoth can be used to build a critique of the…
Foreign Encounters and U.S. Democracy
On December 20, 1940, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his sixteenth fireside chat. With Europe reeling from Nazi Germany’s successful conquest of France, the signing of the Tripartite Pact, and the recently concluded Battle of Britain, Roosevelt implored Americans to build “the great arsenal of democracy” that would aid the United Kingdom in its struggle against Germany.1 A little more than a year later, after the United States…
A Peoples’ Policy for the Americas
Delineating Progressive Grand Strategies
Rethinking the relationship between a US‐based global security architecture and global capitalism
A comment on Felix Mallin and James D. Sidaway's ‘Critical Geoeconomics: A Genealogy of Writing Politics, Economy, and Space’
A Brief History of Cold War Liberalism
In recent years, a flurry of books that explore the history and theory of liberalism have appeared. Nevertheless, there has been surprisingly little scholarship examining the history of 'Cold War liberalism' — one of the most important instantiations of twentieth-century liberalism — as a phenomenon in and of itself, and the work that has been done has mostly focused on a small coterie of American and Western European intellectuals. This essay is…
Cold War Liberalism
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, s…
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