Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements by Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds.

One of the pleasures of Cold War Social Science is that the structure of the book performs transnational social science at three levels: the sites of research, methods and questions, and the social scientists themselves. In terms of the sites of research, the volume includes essays about (among other places) the Soviet Union, Brazil, the Philippines, China, Czechoslovakia, and Turkey (the only major region not included is South Asia), as well as transnational institutions such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In terms of the transnationality of methods and questions, the volume considers a wide variety of disciplines, including area studies, economics, political science, psychology, anthropology, and sociology. In terms of the contributors themselves, they hail from Turkey, Austria, Russia, Colombia, China, Britain, the Czech Republic, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Germany. In sum, this book enacts a version of the social scientific transnationalism that it seeks...