Ron Robin is Professor of History and Communication Studies and Dean of Students at the University of Haifa. He is the author of "The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military Intellectual Complex "(2001), "The Barbed Wire College: Reeducating German POWs in the United States during World War II "(1995), and "Enclaves of America: The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad, 1900-1965 "(1992).