For the prior century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and foreign balance. yet who's a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for instance, was once a sworn enemy of the USA and masses of Western Europe within the first a part of the 20th century, yet emerged as a staunch Western best friend after international warfare II.

By analyzing German reconstruction below the Marshall Plan, writer Patrick Jackson indicates how the rhetorical invention of a West that incorporated Germany used to be serious to the emergence of the postwar global order. Civilizing the Enemy convincingly describes how ideas are strategically formed and given weight in glossy diplomacy, via expertly dissecting the background of "the West" and demonstrating its perplexing patience within the face of contradictory realities.

"By revisiting the early chilly warfare via a few rigorously carried out highbrow heritage, Patrick Jackson expertly dissects the post-1945 meanings of "the West" for Europe's emergent political imaginary. West German reconstruction, the basis of NATO, and the idealizing of 'Western civilization' all seem in interesting new light."
--Geoff Eley, college of Michigan

"Western civilization isn't really given yet politically made. during this theoretically subtle and politically nuanced e-book, Patrick Jackson argues that Germany's reintegration right into a Western neighborhood of countries was once drastically facilitated by means of civilizational discourse. It verified a compelling political good judgment that guided the triumphant Allies of their career coverage. This publication is particularly topical because it engages severely very varied, and not more profitable, modern theoretical buildings and political deployments of civilizational discourse."
--Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University

"What units Patrick Jackson's publication aside is his cognizance, at the one hand, to philosophical concerns at the back of the categories of theoretical claims he makes and, nevertheless, to the methodological implications that persist with from these claims. Few students are prepared and ready to do either, or even fewer are as winning as he's in wearing it off. Patrick Jackson is a scientific philosopher in a box the place conception is the entire rage yet systematic considering is in brief supply."
--Nicholas Onuf, Florida foreign University

Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Assistant Professor of diplomacy in American University's tuition of foreign Service.