Hawkish biases

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-96

  Kahneman, Daniel ^a   Renshon, Jonathan ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84896487794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203879092     Document Type: Chapter

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