Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
(Part of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series)
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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 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
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