American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation Since 9/11 Book

List of tables vii

List of Figures viii

Notes on contributors ix

Foreword Stephen Van Evera xi

Acknowledgements xvii

1 Introduction: understanding threat inflation Jane K. Cramer A. Trevor Thrall 1

2 Understanding beliefs and threat inflation Robert Jervis 16

3 Imperial myths and threat inflation Jack Snyder 40

4 Estimating threats: the impact and interaction of identity and power David L. Rousseau Rocio Garcia-Retamero 54

5 Hawkish biases Daniel Kahneman Jonathan Ranshon 79

6 Threat inflation and the failure of the marketplace of ideas: the selling of the Iraq War Chaim Kaufmann 97

7 The sound of silence: rhetorical coercion, democratic acquiescence, and the Iraq War Ronald R. Krebs Jennifer Lobasz 117

8 Militarized patriotism and the success of threat inflation Jane K. Cramer 135

9 The war over Iraq: selling war to the American public Jon Western 153

10 Framing Iraq: threat inflation in the marketplace of values A. Trevor Thrall 174

11 Inflating terrorism John Mueller 192

12 Perception and power in counterterrorism: assessing the American response to Al Qaeda before September 11 Benjamin H. Friedman 210

Index 230