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...
This volume is a compilation of essays addressing the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. Simply defined, thre...
