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1. National Security Panics

   Threat Inflation and US Foreign Policy Shifts

   By Jane Cramer

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book examines ‘national security panics‘ that led to major U.S. foreign policy shifts. A national security panic is a period when the public was gripped by a widespread fear of imminent threat from an enemy allegedly bent on the destruction of the United States, yet with hindsight, the public...

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
2. National Security Panics

   Threat Inflation and US Foreign Policy Shifts

   By Jane Cramer

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book examines ‘national security panics‘ that led to major U.S. foreign policy shifts. A national security panic is a period when the public was gripped by a widespread fear of imminent threat from an enemy allegedly bent on the destruction of the United States, yet with hindsight, the public...

   To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
3. Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?

   Edited by Jane Cramer, A. Trevor Thrall

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics. In the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not as...

   Published August 3rd 2011 by Routledge
4. American Foreign Policy and The Politics of Fear

   Threat Inflation since 9/11

   Edited by A. Trevor Thrall, Jane K. Cramer

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This edited volume addresses the issue of threat inflation in American foreign policy and domestic politics. The Bush administration's aggressive campaign to build public support for an invasion of Iraq reheated fears about the president's ability to manipulate the public, and many charged the...

   Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge