| Description |
xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge global security studies ; 10 |
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Routledge global security studies ; 10
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| Contents |
Foreword / Stephen Van Evera -- 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 L. Rousseau and Rocio Garcia-Retamero -- 5. Hawkish biases / Daniel Kahneman and Jonathan Renshon -- 6. Threat inflation and the failure of the marketplace of ideas: the selling of the Iraq War / Chaim Kaufmann -- 7. The sound of silence: rhetorical coercion, democratic acquiescence, and the Iraq War II? / 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 Mueller -- 12. Perception and power in counterterrorism: assessing the American response to Al Qaeda before September 11 / Benjamin H. Friedman |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Public opinion.
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Threats -- United States.
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War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Public opinion.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115 -- Psychological aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011485
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| Author |
Cramer, Jane K.
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Thrall, A. Trevor.
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| LC no. |
2008046236 |
| ISBN |
0415777682 (hardcover) |
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0415777690 (paperback) |
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9780415777681 (hardcover) |
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9780415777698 (paperback) |
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