American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear : Threat Inflation since 9/11

ISBN-13: 9780415777681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 256 str.

A. Thrall Trevor

Opis

This volume is a compilation of essays addressing the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. Simply defined, threat inflation is the effort by elites to create concern for a threat that goes beyond the scope and urgency that disinterested analysis would justify, such as in the build up to the Iraq war and over Iran's nuclear ambitions since mid-2007. More broadly, the threat inflation process concerns how elites view threats, the political uses of threat inflation, the politics of threat framing among competing elites, and how the public interprets and perceives threats via the news media. This book will be of much interests to students of US foreign and national security policy, international security, strategic studies and IR in general.

Spis treści

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