War and ideas: selected essays
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements and synopses
viii
Preface: Marketing mousetraps
χ
PARTI
War, ideas, and peace
1
1
The obsolescence of major war
5
Reflections
Hitler as a necessary cause of World War II
14
The essential irrelevance of nuclear weapons
15
The waning of major war
16
2
Policing the remnants of war
17
Reflections
War, love, and the combat high
30
Developing armies: recruiting criminals and ordinary men
31
Distinguishing between crime, terrorism, and war
32
3
War has almost ceased to exist: An assessment
35
Reflections
Is civil war going out of style?
58
The
Rombo
phenomenon
60
Another data set
61
4
Why isn t there more violence?
63
Reflections
The decline in violence
73
Possible aberrations in the trend
74
vi
Contents
PARTII
Threat perception, ideas, and foreign policy
77
5
What was the Cold War about? Evidence from its ending
79
Reflections
Massive extrapolation
101
The enemy within
103
6
Simplicity and spook: Terrorism and the dynamics of
threat exaggeration 1
05
Reflections
Sales resistance to the Hitler threat
138
The Cold War as farce
139
Domestic terrorism, domestic Communism, and the
self-licking ice cream cone
139
The cost-effectiveness of counterterrorism
140
7
Faulty correlation, foolish consistency, fatal
consequence: Democracy, peace, and theory in the
Middle East 142
Reflections
Democracy, capitalism, and peace: interrelations and
causal connections
158
Democracy without prerequisites
160
PART
ΠΙ
Public opinion, foreign policy, and war
163
8
American foreign policy and public opinion in a new era:
Eleven propositions
165
Reflections
Reason and caprice
191
The most important problem since
2001 191
Comparing dates of infamy
192
9
The Iraq War and the management of American
public opinion
194
Reflections
The president s ability to go to war
213
Contents
vii
Casualty phobia, defeat phobia, proximate casualties
214
A change in casualty tolerance?
214
The anti-war movement during the Iraq War
215
Reason and caprice (continued)
215
Comparative syndromes
217
Publications by John Mueller referred to in the introductions
and notes
220
Index
221
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