Balancing Risks : : Great Power Intervention in the Periphery / / 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, e...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 8 tables, 1 line drawing |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Index