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050 00 $aE840$b.J64 1994
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100 1 $aJohnson, Robert H.,$d1921-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94026933
245 10 $aImprobable dangers :$bU.S. conceptions of threat in the Cold War and after /$cRobert H. Johnson.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c1994.
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300 $ax, 324 pages ;$c22 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-317).
505 0 $a1. Toward Understanding the Psychological Bases of Threats and the U.S. Tendency to Exaggerate Them -- 2. American Politics, Psychology, and the Exaggeration of Threat -- 3. Early Cold War Ideas, European Political Vulnerabilities, and the Political-Psychological Threat in Europe -- 4. Political-Military Threats in Europe -- 5. Nuclear Threats to International Order and National Control -- 6. Periods of Peril: The Window of Vulnerability and Other Myths -- 7. Exaggerating the Threat and the Stakes in Third World Conflicts: Concepts -- 8. Third World Conflicts: Illustrating Concepts with Cold War Cases -- 9. A Post-Cold War Case: The Conflict in the Persian Gulf -- 10. The Past: Causes and Consequences of Threat Exaggeration -- 11. The Future: Rethinking National Security in an Age of Disorder.
520 $aWhy did U.S. policymakers so regularly exaggerate the Soviet threat during the Cold War? And with the disappearance of the Soviet Union, is this alarmist tendency likely to persist?
520 8 $aRobert H. Johnson examines these questions by using psychological and political analysis and focusing upon U.S. conceptions of threat in the European, nuclear, and Third World arenas of conflict. He offers a different kind of Cold War revisionism, concentrating on mistaken ideas about threats while accepting the reality of threat and the need for a policy of containment.
520 8 $aWithin this framework, American alarmism can be seen to stem from the human need for order and control and from the necessities of domestic politics. Improbable Dangers advances a cyclical view of U.S. alarmism in the Cold War and includes numerous case studies. Against this background it looks to the future, critiquing emerging views of the fresh perils that may confront this country and suggesting broad guidelines for a more realistic U.S. foreign policy.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989$xPsychological aspects.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989-$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aThreats$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $bleh$hE840$i.J64 1994