Trevor Thrall

A. Trevor Thrall is an associate professor of government and politics at George Mason University and director of the Biodefense Program. He is the coeditor of American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation since 9/11 and coeditor of the forthcoming book Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?


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Global Governance

A New Infrastructure for Intervention

| 04.24.12

Obama's announcement of the Atrocities Prevention Board makes sense only if the goal is to intervene much more frequently.

Politics

Reagan Doctrine Redux?

| 03.01.12

Obama is following in Reagan's footsteps. Whether that's a good thing remains to be seen.

Politics

A Responsibility to Protect?

| 02.22.12

If Obama decides to intervene in Syria, he will have a hard time selling it to a skeptical American public.

Society

The Truth Is Out There

| 02.09.12

An age of partisanship and zealotry may spell the end of agreement on the facts. 

Society

Support for Whacking Iran: Who Needs Propaganda?

| 01.26.12
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