Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Understanding threat inflation; 2 Understanding beliefs and threat inflation; 3 Imperial myths and threat inflation; 4 Estimating threats: The impact and interaction of identity and power; 5 Hawkish biases; 6 Threat inflation and the failure of the marketplace of ideas: The selling of the Iraq War; 7 The sound of silence: Rhetorical coercion, Democratic acquiescence, and the Iraq War; 8 Militarized patriotism and the success of threat inflation
Summary
This edited volume examines threat inflation, and its role in framing US foreign and security policy since 9/11
