TY - BOOK AU - Thrall,A Trevor AU - Cramer,Jane K TI - American foreign policy and the politics of fear : threat inflation since 9/11 T2 - Routledge global security studies SN - 9780415777698 AV - JZ1480 .A959 2009 U1 - 327.73 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Threats KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 2001- KW - Psychological aspects N1 - 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 ER -