American foreign policy and the politics of fear : threat inflation since 9/11 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Thrall, A. Trevor, Cramer, Jane K.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2009]
Subjects:	United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009 > Psychological aspects. Threats > United States.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Stephen Van Evera
Introduction : understanding threat inflation / Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall
Understanding beliefs and threat inflation / Robert Jervis
Imperial myths and threat inflation / Jack Snyder
Estimating threats : the impact and interaction of identity and power / David Rousseau and Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Hawkish biases / Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon
Threat inflation and the failure of the marketplace of ideas : the selling the Iraq War / Chaim Kaufmann
The sound of silence : rhetorical coercion, democratic acquiescence, and the Iraq War / Ronald R. Krebs and Jennifer Lobasz
Militarized patriotism and the success of threat inflation / Jane K. Kramer
The war over Iraq : selling war to the American public / Jon Western
Framing Iraq : threat inflation in the marketplace of values / A. Trevor Thrall
Inflating terrorism / John Mueller
Perception and power in counter-terrorism : assessing the American response to Al Qaeda before September 11 / Benjamin H. Friedman.