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Jeffrey W. Taliaferro - Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery - 9780801442216 - V9780801442216
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Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery

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Description for Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 336 pages, 9. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.

Great powers often initiate risky military and diplomatic inventions in far-off, peripheral regions that pose no direct threat to them, risking direct confrontation with rivals in strategically inconsequential places. Why do powerful countries behave in a way that leads to entrapment in prolonged, expensive, and self-defeating conflicts?

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro suggests that such interventions are driven by the refusal of senior officials to accept losses in their state's relative power, international status, or prestige. Instead of cutting their losses, leaders often continue to invest blood and money in failed excursions into the periphery. Their policies may seem to be driven ... Read more

Taliaferro constructs a "balance-of-risk" theory of foreign policy that draws on defensive realism (in international relations) and prospect theory (in psychology). He illustrates the power of this new theory in several case narratives: Germany's initiation and escalation of the 1905 and 1911 Moroccan crises, the United States' involvement in the Korean War in 1950–52, and Japan's entanglement in the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937–40 and its decisions for war with the U.S. in 1940–41.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801442216
SKU
V9780801442216
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About Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.

Reviews for Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
Great powers have frequently become embroiled in costly wars in peripheral regions that pose no direct threat.... In this historically rich and theoretically elegant study, Taliaferro tackles the question of why states persist in such counterproductive interventions.... It provides a useful cautionary message as the United States embarks on far-flung counterterrorism operations in the periphery.
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