Balancing Risks by Jeffrey W Taliaferro
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...-
Covert Regime Change
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Corporate Warriors
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Why Intelligence Fails
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Bombing to Win
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Weapons of Mass Migration
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Final Solutions
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Myths of Empire
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The Origins of Alliances
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Conventional Deterrence
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Crucible of Beliefs
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Causes of War
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Targeting Civilians in War
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The Peace of Illusions
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The Ethics of Destruction
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Report to JFK
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Alliance Politics
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Securing Japan
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Dangerous Sanctuaries
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Living Weapons
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Societies and Military Power
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Unrivaled
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Liddell Hart and the Weight of History
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Twilight of the Titans
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Taking Territory
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The Remnants of War
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The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy
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Dilemmas of Appeasement
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Fighting to a Finish
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Retrench, Defend, Compete
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Strong Commanders, Weak States
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Just Politics
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Revolution and War
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Divided Union
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The Remote Revolution
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Autocracy 2.0
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Nuclear Statecraft
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.
(Foreign Affairs)Taliaferro skillfully blends two lines of theorizing defensive realism and prospect theory, to explain the conditions under which leaders of great powers are more or less likely to adopt risky foreign military policies.... Balancing Risks is a thoroughly researched and well written addition to the literature.
(Virginia Quarterly Review)Jeffrey W. Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801442216 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801442214 |
| Title | Balancing Risks |
| Author | Jeffrey W Taliaferro |
| Series | Cornell Studies In Security Affairs |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2004-04-15 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Winner of the 2005 Jervis-Schroeder Award (Interna. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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