American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11 (Routledge Global Security Studies)

by A. Trevor Thrall (Editor)

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  2009

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  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. This work addresses threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics.