American foreign policy and the politics of fear threat inflation since 9/11
American foreign policy and the politics of fear threat inflation since 9/11
- London Routledge 2009
- xvi,235p. ill. ; 24 cm.
- Routledge global security studies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780415777698
2008046236
Threats--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Psychological aspects.--2001-
JZ1480 / .A959 2009
327.73 / AM-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780415777698
2008046236
Threats--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Psychological aspects.--2001-
JZ1480 / .A959 2009
327.73 / AM-