Balancing Risks
Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2019
336 pages
978-1-5017-2025-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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04/2004
Cornell University Press
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Jeffrey W. Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
Content
- Cover
- BALANCING RISKS
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Translations, Romanization, and Stylistic Conventions
- 1. Power Politics and the Balance of Risk
- 2. Explaining Great Power Involvement in the Periphery
- 3. Germany and the 1905 Morocco Crisis
- 4. Japan and the 1940-41 War Decisions
- 5. The United States and the Korean War (1950-51)
- 6. The Limits of Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
- 7. Implications of the Argument
- Notes
- Index
