{"product_id":"balancing-risks-great-power-intervention-in-the-periphery-9780801442216","title":"Balancing Risks  Great Power Intervention in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaliaferro 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.... \u003ci\u003eBalancing Risks\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoroughly researched and well written addition to the literature.\u003c\/p\u003e * Virginia Quarterly Review *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405128376663,"sku":"9780801442216","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801442216.jpg?v=1730488799","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/balancing-risks-great-power-intervention-in-the-periphery-9780801442216","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}