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Security studies

elite exaggeration of foreign threats beyond what evidence supports, and the conditions under which public debate fails to correct it.

In security studies, threat inflation refers to elite exaggeration of foreign threats beyond what evidence supports, and the conditions under which public debate fails to correct it. This meaning comes from Kaufmann (2004) in International Security.[1]

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References

Kaufmann, C. (2004). Threat Inflation and the Failure of the Marketplace of Ideas: The Selling of the Iraq War. International Security, 29(1), 5-48. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162288041762940

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