1st Edition
American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear Threat Inflation since 9/11
Foreword: Threat Inflation and International Politics Stephen Van Evera. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Understanding Threat Inflation Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall 2. Understanding Beliefs and Threat Inflation Robert Jervis 3. Imperial Myths and Threat Inflation Jack Snyder 4. Estimating Threats: The Impact and Interaction of Identity and Power David Rousseau and Rocio Garcia-Retamero 5. Hawkish Biases Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon 6. Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas: Selling the Iraq War Chaim Kaufmann 7. The Sound of Silence: Rhetorical Coercion, Democratic Acquiescence, and the Iraq War Ronald R. Krebs and Jennifer Lobasz 8. Militarized Patriotism and the Success of Threat Inflation Jane K. Cramer 9. The War Over Iraq: Selling War to the American Public Jon Western 10. Framing Iraq: Threat Inflation in the Marketplace of Values A. Trevor Thrall 11. Inflating Terrorism John E. Mueller 12. Perception and Power in Counter-terrorism: Assessing the American Response to Al Qaeda before September 11 Benjamin H. Friedman
Biography
Trevor Thrall is Assistant Professor of Political Science and directs the Master of Public Policy program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Jane Kellett Cramer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon.
‘The main asset of the book resides in its very form. Being a collection of studies means that it is also a varied collection of topics, research methods, approaches and achievements. The editors have achieved a perfect balance between empirical research and tangible results [...] As an ensemble the book is very well written and the mark of the editors is highly visible in the organisation of the contents. Studies seem to flow one after another in perfect harmony, each previewing a topic to be analysed in the next one, without redundancy or stale moments. This makes it altogether a notable piece of research on the matter of US foreign policy post-9/11, and highly recommendable to those interested in new aspects on the matter.’ – Oana Elena Branda, University of Bucharest, Political Studies Review, Vol 10:3, Sept. 2012
