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Foreword / Stephen Van Evera -- Introduction: Understanding Threat Inflation / Jane K. Cramer And A. Trevor Thrall -- Understanding Beliefs And Threat Inflation / Robert Jervis -- Imperial Myths And Threat Inflation / Jack Snyder -- Estimating Threats: The Impact And Interaction Of Identity And Power / David Rousseau And Rocio Garcia-retamero -- Hawkish Biases / Daniel Kahneman And Jonathan Renshon -- Threat Inflation And The Failure Of The Marketplace Of Ideas: The Selling The Iraq War / Chaim Kaufmann -- The Sound Of Silence: Rhetorical Coercion, Democratic Acquiescence, And The Iraq War / Ronald R. Krebs And Jennifer Lobasz -- Militarized Patriotism And The Success Of Threat Inflation / Jane K. Kramer -- The War Over Iraq: Selling War To The American Public / Jon Western -- Framing Iraq: Threat Inflation In The Marketplace Of Values / A. Trevor Thrall -- Inflating Terrorism / John Mueller -- Perception And Power In Counter-terrorism: Assessing The American Response To Al Qaeda Before September 11 / Benjamin H. Friedman. Edited By A. Trevor Thrall And Jane K. Cramer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.