Dr. Jane Kellett Cramer
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Department of Political Science
1284 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Email: jkcramer@uoregon.edu
Phone: (541)346-4626
Fax: (541)346-4860
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Dr. Jane Kellett CramerAssistant Professor Email: jkcramer@uoregon.edu Phone: (541)346-4626 |
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Professional BioDr. Jane Kellett Cramer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Jane received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in security studies and international relations, and her BA from Oberlin College. She researches and teaches about international relations, American foreign policy and international security. Her current main research has been about the causes of state overestimations of threats -- national security panics. She has found that the main source of large public fears is intentional threat inflation, as opposed to intelligence failures or caused by the result of psychological biases. She has most recently concentrated on explaining the causes and success of the threat inflation before the Iraq War. She is co-editor of a recent edited volume, American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11 (Routledge 2009). She is also working on testing hypotheses about why the U.S. invaded Iraq. |