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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Robert D. Dean. Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and The Making of Cold War Foreign Policy. (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2001. Pp. x, 329. $29.95.

Robert D. Dean's fascinating study of Cold War foreign policy elites contributes to the movement to reconsider U.S. foreign relations history in light of recent scholarship in social and cultural history. More specifically, Dean joins Frank Costigliola, Emily Rosenberg, Mary Renda, Melani McAlister, Michelle Mart, Alexander DeConde, Geoffrey S. Smith, K.A. Cuordileone, and others who have highlighted the relevance of masculinity to foreign relations. Along with shedding light on foreign policy formulation, the book breaks ground in men's history by illuminating the gender codes created by establishment men (the "imperial brotherhood" of the title) and their detractors. 1

The book can be divided into three parts. The early chapters cover the socialization of the elite men who dominated foreign-policy making in the post-World War II period. Dean's treatment of the violent peer culture that characterized male boarding schools is particularly noteworthy. He also alludes to Ivy League fraternities and metropolitan men's clubs before moving on to the significance of military service during World War II. This chapter finds that military service not only contributed to a predisposition to use force but that elite men's military records (however exaggerated) helped them claim political power. . . .

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