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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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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 *

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/03/2004
      ISBN13: 9780801442216, 978-0801442216
      ISBN10: 0801442214

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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...



      Trade Review

      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 *

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