The sound of silence: Rhetorical coercion, Democratic acquiescence, and the Iraq War

American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-134

  Krebs, Ronald R ^a   Lobasz, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203879092     Document Type: Chapter

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