Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West

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Index The letter f following a page number denotes a ‹gure. 275 Abbott, Andrew, 149, 196, 252 Abendland (the West), 93–96, 98, 102, 130, 141, 186–87. See also heliotropism; Western Civilization/the West academy, German, 79–80, 86, 90, 96–97 Acheson, Dean, 123, 146, 162, 241–42, 251; on new trajectory, 199, 218–19, 222, 228–29, 233, 236–37; on Truman Doctrine, 152–55 actor/agent: and agency, 29, 32–36, 39, 249–51; boundary of, 25; state as, 27. See also individual Adenauer, Konrad, 2, 57n, 140n, 201, 241, 251; on America, 224; on BRD, 3, 201, 202, 204–5, 207; on defense, 229–30, 231–34, 236–38; on ERP, 184–89; on London Agreements, 192–94; on new Germany, 124–25, 127–30; praise for, 235; on reuni‹cation, 64–65, 199; on Ruhr, 208–12; on Saar, 213, 214–15; on Soviet threat, 141–44; on Western Civilization , 67–70, 181–82, 191. See also CDU advocates and opponents, 47 agency, 13–14, 40–45; and agent/actor, 27, 29, 39, 249–51 agent-structure problem, 33–35 aggregate pattern, 17 aid, economic, 174–75; and anticommunism , 156; to China, 174; ef‹cacy of, 177–78; to Greece and Turkey, 151–55; occidentalism in, 167; United States to Germany, 13; to Western Europe, 54. See also ERP airlift, Berlin, 195, 196 alliance/ally, ix, 122–24, 153, 165; and enemy, 201; Germany as, x, 2–3, 13; in new trajectory, 195, 202, 204, 206, 236–38; and Soviet Union, 217–18. See also occupation Allied Control Council (ACC), 145–46 Allied High Commission, 210–11 America, 57; as city on a hill, 60–61; conquest of, 81–82; and West-European -American culture, 104. See also United States Americanization, 74–75n anticommunism: and China, 172–73; and exceptionalism, 150; in German debates, 65–66, 113; and occidentalism , 155–56, 166, 168; in postwar debates, 113; in rhetorical topography, 62f, 69f, 71f; in U.S. debates, 57–62. See also communism “Appeal to the Civilized World” (German Intellectuals’ manifesto), 97 Arab states, 48 archaeology, 91–92 Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 232 Asia, 53. See also speci‹c country Association of Foreign Press Correspondents , 235 atheism, 133 Atlantic community, 153–54, 179n. See also NATO Augustine, St., 80 authority, 25–26 Babylon, 78 Bad Godesberg conference (1959), 68–69 barbarian/uncivilized vs. civilization, 92, 117, 133–34, 229. See also civilization Barnett, Michael, 22, 48 Belgium, 97 Berlin, 2, 64, 159, 195–96, 209–10, 227 Bevin, Ernst, 217 Bhaskar, Roy, 37–38 Bible, 80, 81, 82 Bildung (cultivation), 90–92 binding clause, 236 bipolarity, 223–24, 249 Bizone, 149, 189–91 Blankenhorn, Herbert, 224 Bolshevism, 57, 67 Bolton, Frances, 155, 173 Bonn, 52, 207–8 boomerang pattern, 19 boundaries, 24–27; of action/actor, 24–25; of Germany, 212; and legitimation , 24–27; Oder-Neisse line, 213, 214; of state, 26–27; of West, 4, 170–72. See also East/West split; occupation ; Western Civilization/the West Braudel, Fernand, 9 BRD (Federal Republic of Germany/ Bundesrepublik Deutschland), 149, 188, 190; CDU on, 204–5; equality for, 189, 193–94, 210; in ERP, North Atlantic Treaty, and NATO, 2–3, 113–14, 226, 234, 238, 242; in new trajectory , 198–202, 208, 210–12, 214, 226–30, 236–38; and Soviet Union, 202–7; and West Germany, 64–65, 201. See also Germany Britain, 1, 52, 97–98, 175n, 201, 216–17 Brubaker, Rogers, 11 Bundesstaat (federal state), 204 Bundestag (German parliament), 52n, 199, 208–9, 215 Burke, Edmund, 93–94 Byrnes, James F., 114, 121, 122–23, 131, 144–46, 148 capital, federal, 207 capitalism, 20, 23, 182–83 Case, Francis, 171 Catholicism, 93, 95 causality, 32, 35–37, 40–45. See also legitimation CDU (Christian Democratic Union), 112, 114, 124–25, 129; on Bizone, 190; on BRD, 204–5; in 1946 elections, 144; on ERP, 180, 182, 184–86, 187–88; and KPD, 130; on London Agreements , 193; on new trajectory, 201, 202n. 6, 204–5, 207–9, 232; on rhetorical topography, 51–52, 65–66, 71f; Soviet threat to, 141–44. See also Adenauer, Konrad Central America, 55 “Challenge to Americans” (Stimson), 163 character, German, 115–16 Charlemagne, 93 Checkel, Jeffrey T., 22, 35 Chicago, 163 China, 172–74 Chirac, Jacques, 6 Christian Democrats. See CDU Christianity, 7, 65, 67, 69–70, 128; and Christian-Western culture, 129, 235; and civilization/barbarian distinction, 133–34; and ERP, 188; salvation narrative of, 79...