Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801442214
• ISBN13: 9780801442216
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher