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" American foreign policy and the politics of fear : "
edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer
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656128
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American foreign policy and the politics of fear : : threat inflation since 9/11 /\ edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer
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London ;New York, NY :: Routledge,, 2009
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Routledge global security studies
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xvi, 235 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9780415777681 (hardcover)
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: 9780415777698 (pbk.)
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: 9780203879092 (e-book)
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: 0415777682 (hardcover)
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: 0415777690 (pbk.)
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: 0203879090 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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This edited volume examines threat inflation, and its role in framing US foreign and security policy since 9/11
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Threats-- United States
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United States, Foreign relations, 2001-Psychological aspects
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JZ1480.A959 2009
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Thrall, A. Trevor
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Cramer, Jane K
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