A dangerous world? : threat perception and U.S. national security / edited by Christopher A. Preble and John Mueller ; cover design, Jon Meyers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Preble, Christopher A., editor.

Mueller, John, editor.

Meyers, Jon, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States.

National security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : Cato Institute, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this timely edited volume of papers, experts on international security assess, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

INTRODUCTION

1. How Dangerous? History and Nuclear Alarmism

2. Nuclear Alarmism: Proliferation and Terrorism

3. China's Putative Threat to U.S. National Security

4. The American Perception of Substate Threats

5. The Management of Savagery: Policy Options for Confronting Substate Threats

6. Transnational Crime as a Security Threat: Myths, Misconceptions, and Historical Lessons

7. Dealing with Cyberattacks

8. Climate Change and National Security: Balancing the Costs and Benefits

9. It's Coming from Inside the House

10. Human Security in the United States

11. Bucks for the Bang? Assessing the Economic Returns to Military Primacy

12. Assessing the "Threat" of International Tension to the U.S. Economy

13. It's a Commons Misunderstanding: The Limited Threat to American Command of the Commons

14. Security Threats in Contemporary World Politics: Potential Hegemons, Partnerships, and Primacy

15. Delusions of Danger: Geopolitical Fear and Indispensability in U.S. Foreign Policy

16. Alarums and Excursions: Explaining Threat Inflation in U.S. Foreign Policy

NOTES

CONTRIBUTORS.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9781939709417

1939709415

OCLC:

893332630