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OverviewThis 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 edited volume engages three key themes, all of which are the subject of intense practical and theoretical concern today. First, what are the causes of threat inflation and at what level (individuals, groups, institutions, polities, international system) do the key factors operate? Second, under what conditions is threat inflation likely to be successful? Third, how serious a problem is threat inflation and how likely is it to affect the US in the future as it confronts terrorism and other potential and emerging threats?In both its theoretical contributions and its case studies, this book showcases work from each of the three major approaches to explaining threat inflation: realist, psychological, and constructivist. This book will be of much interests to students of US foreign and national security policy, international security, strategic studies and IR in general. Full Product DetailsAuthor: A. Trevor Thrall (University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA) , Jane K. Cramer (University of Oregon, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Volume: v. 10 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.404kg ISBN: 9780415777698ISBN 10: 0415777690 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 28 April 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsForeword: 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. FriedmanReviewsAuthor InformationUniversity of Michigan, Dearborn, USA Department of Political Science, University of Oregon, USA Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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