CAVANAUGH, Jeffrey M. <br/><br/>
From the "red juggernaut" to Iraqi WMD :  threat inflation and how it succeeds in the United States 

 - New York :  Academy of Political Science,  Winter 2007 
<br/><br/> Jeffrey M. Cavanaugh analyses the process of "threat inflation" in the United States by examining three positive cases and one negative case of threat inflation since 1945. He concludes that successful threat inflation and hawkish policies stem from the interaction of several factors.