War and Ideas : Selected Essays (Hardcover)

Preface: Marketing Mousetraps  Part 1: War, Ideas, and Peace  Introduction  1. The Obsolescence of Major War  2. Policing the Remnants of War  3. War Has Almost Ceased to Exist: An Assessment  4. Why Isn't There More Violence?  Part 2: Threat Perception, Ideas, and Foreign Policy  Introduction  5. What Was the Cold War About? Evidence from Its Ending  6. Simplicity and Spook: Terrorism and the Dynamics of Threat Exaggeration  7. Faulty Correlation, Foolish Consistency, and Fatal Consequence: Democracy, Peace, and Theory in the Middle East  Part 3: Public Opinion, Foreign Policy, and War  Introduction  8. American Foreign Policy and Public Opinion in a New Era: Eleven Propositions  9. The Iraq War and the Management of American Public Opinion