Jeffrey W. Taliaferro


Jeffrey W. Taliaferro is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is a professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His teaching and research focus on security studies and international relations theory.[1]

Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
EducationDuke University (AB)
Harvard University (PhD)
Notable work
  • Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (2009)
  • Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics (2016)
  • Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy (2019)
Era21st century
RegionNorth America
SchoolNeoclassical realism
InstitutionsTufts University
Main interests
Notable ideas
resource extraction, loss aversion, and balance-of-risk

Biography

He received his A.B. from Duke University in political science and history and his A.M. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Taliaferro has spent his entire career at Tufts University, as an assistant professor (1998-2005), associate professor (2005-2020), and professor in the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences. He also teaches in the Global Master of Arts Program at the Fletcher School.

Taliaferro previously served as an Editorial Board Member(EBM) for the Review of International Studies (2010-2016), a journal of the British International Studies Association, and for the International Studies Review (2007-2011 and 2015–2021), a journal of the International Studies Association. He currently serves as an EMB for International Security and Security Studies. Taliaferro is also a member of the American Political Science Association (APSA), International Studies Association (ISA), and European International Studies Association (EISA). Taliaferro has held fellowships at the Wilson Center and the Norwegian Nobel Institute[2]

Theoretical Contribution to Neoclassical Realism
Main article: Neoclassical realism

Taliaferro is one the leading scholars of neoclassical realism. He co-edited/co-authored Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (2009) and Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics (2016), which develop neoclassical realist theory in international relations, with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell.[3]

Selected publications

Books
  • Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), simultaneous cloth, paperback, and Oxford Scholarship Online editions, 288 pages.[4]
  • Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) co-authored with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell; simultaneous cloth and paperback editions, April 2016, 208 pages; Chinese (Mandarin) translation released by Shanghai People's Publishing House, October 2017.[5][6]
  • The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University 2012), co-editor and contributor with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell; cloth edition August 2012; paperback edition August 2013, 310 pages.[7]
  • Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), co-editor and contributor with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman; simultaneous paperback and cloth editions, 275 pages.
  • Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), cloth, 320 pages. Winner of the 2005 Robert Jervis-Paul W. Schroeder Prize for the Best Book in International History and Politics, American Political Science Association.[8][9][10]

Articles
  • “Is Peaceful Change Always Desirable? A Neoclassical Realist Perspective,” International Studies Review, vol. 20 (2018): 283-291 (co-authored with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell)
  • "State Building for Future War: Neoclassical Realism and the Resource Extractive State," Security Studies, vol. 15, no. 3 (2006): 464-495
  • "Power Politics and the Balance-of-Risk: Hypotheses on Great Power Intervention in the Periphery," Political Psychology, vol. 25, no. 2 (2004): 177-211
  • "Realism, Power Shifts, and Major War," Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 4 (2001): 145-178
  • "Security-Seeking under Anarchy: Defensive Realism Reconsidered," International Security, vol. 25, no. 3 (2001): 128-161
  • "Quagmires in the Periphery: Foreign Wars and Escalating Commitment in International Conflict," Security Studies, vol. 7, no. 3 (1998): 94-144

Book Chapters
  • “Peaceful Change: The Post-Cold War Evolution," in T.V. Paul, Deborah Larson, Harold Trinkunas, Anders Wivel, and Raif Emmers, eds., Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
  • “Neoclassical realism, Non-proliferation, and the limits of US Hegemony in the Middle East and South Asia,” in Asle Toje and Bård Nikolas Vik Steen, eds., The Causes of Peace: What We Know Now (Oslo, Norway: Lioncrest Publishing, 2019)
  • “Did the US and the Allies Fail to Accommodate Japan in the 1920s and the 1930s?” in TV Paul, ed., Accommodating Rising Powers: Past, Present, and Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
  • “Neoclassical Realism: Domestic Opportunities and Great Power Intervention,” (with Robert W. Wishart), in Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed., Making Sense of International Relations Theory, second edition (Colorado: Lynne Reinner, 2013)
  • “Introduction: Grand Strategy in the Interwar Period” (with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman), in Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Steven E. Lobell, and Norrin M. Ripsman, eds., The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
  • “Strategy of Innocence or Provocation: The Roosevelt Administration’s Road to World War II,” in Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Steven E. Lobell, and Norrin M. Ripsman, eds., The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
  • “Neoclassical Realism and the Study of Regional Order” in TV Paul, ed., International Relations Theory and Regional Transformation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
  • "Introduction: Neoclassical Realism, States, and Foreign Policy" (with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman) in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • "Neoclassical Realism and Resource Extraction: State Building for Future War" in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • "Conclusion: The State of Neoclassical Realism," (with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell) in Steven E. Lobell, Norrin M. Ripsman, and Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, eds., Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • "Neoclassical Realism: Prestige, Loss Aversion, and Great Power Intervention," in Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed., Making Sense of International Relations Theory (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 2005)

References
  1. "Jeffrey Taliaferro | Department of Political Science". Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences.
  2. "Jeffrey Taliaferro". Tufts University.
  3. "Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics". Peace Research Institute Oslo. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  4. Bano, Saira (April 2021). "Book review: Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Non-proliferation in US Foreign Policy". Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs. 8 (1): 127–129. doi:10.1177/2347797021992166. ISSN 2347-7970.
  5. "Book Review: Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics by Norrin M. Ripsman, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Steven E. Lobell". LSE Review of Books. 11 October 2016.
  6. Chandra, Vikash (4 May 2017). "Neoclassical realist theory of international politics". Strategic Analysis. 41 (3): 297–299. doi:10.1080/09700161.2017.1295611.
  7. Joshi, Yogesh (January 2012). "Book Review: Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell (Eds), The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars". International Studies. 49 (1–2): 154–158. doi:10.1177/0020881713504686. ISSN 0020-8817.
  8. Pickering, Jeffrey (2005). "Review of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery". Political Science Quarterly. 120 (2): 306–307. ISSN 0032-3195.
  9. Ikenberry, G. John (2004). "Review of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery". Foreign Affairs. 83 (5): 166–166. doi:10.2307/20034083. ISSN 0015-7120.
  10. Bakich, Spencer D. (2004). "Review of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 80 (4): 275–275. ISSN 0042-675X.
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