03475nam 2200553 450 991082406830332120191127084542.01-5017-2025-210.7591/9781501720253(CKB)4100000008039737(DE-B1597)534012(OCoLC)1121053917(DE-B1597)9781501720253(Au-PeEL)EBL5965074(MiAaPQ)EBC5965074(EXLCZ)99410000000803973720191127d2004 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBalancing risks great power intervention in th periphery /Jeffrey W. TaliaferroIthaca, New York ;London :Cornell University Press,[2004]©20041 online resource (329 pages)Cornell studies in security affairsIncludes index.1-5017-2026-0 0-8014-4221-4 Front matter --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 --IndexGreat 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 losses in their state's relative power, international status, or prestige. Instead of cutting their losses, leaders often continue to invest blood and money in failed excursions into the periphery. Their policies may seem to be driven by rational concerns about power and security, but Taliaferro deems them to be at odds with the master explanation of political realism. Taliaferro constructs a "balance-of-risk" theory of foreign policy that draws on defensive realism (in international relations) and prospect theory (in psychology). He illustrates the power of this new theory in several case narratives: Germany's initiation and escalation of the 1905 and 1911 Moroccan crises, the United States' involvement in the Korean War in 1950-52, and Japan's entanglement in the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937-40 and its decisions for war with the U.S. in 1940-41.Cornell studies in security affairs.World politics20th centuryGreat BritainForeign relations1901-1910JapanForeign relations1912-1945United StatesForeign relations1945-1953World politics909.8215.59bcl89.79bclTaliaferro Jeffrey W.1642413MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824068303321Balancing risks3987106UNINA