American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear¶
Thrall, A. T., & Cramer, J. K. (2009). American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11. Routledge.
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Primes¶
- Shirky Principle
- In defense and security industries, contractors, lobbies, and think-tank ecosystems draw revenue that tracks the perceived threat level, with a corresponding incentive to maintain the threat's salience.
This sourceAnalyzes threat inflation — elite efforts to exaggerate threats beyond what disinterested analysis warrants — including the role of defense contractors and defense-funded think tanks whose interests track perceived threat level.
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The book's own description shows it analyzes threat inflation and its four explanations, including domestic politics, but says nothing of defense contractors, lobbies, think tanks, or revenue tracking perceived threat.
“Through both theoretical contributions and case studies, this book showcases the four major explanations of threat inflation -- realism, domestic politics, psychology, and constructivism -- and makes them confront one another directly.”
- In defense and security industries, contractors, lobbies, and think-tank ecosystems draw revenue that tracks the perceived threat level, with a corresponding incentive to maintain the threat's salience.
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