Jeffrey W. Taliaferro Explained

Region:	North America
Era:	21st century
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
School Tradition:	Neoclassical realism
Institutions:	Tufts University
Main Interests:	national security international security international relations theory foreign policy analysis
Notable Ideas:	resource extraction, loss aversion, and balance-of-risk
Education:	Duke University (AB) Harvard University (PhD)
Notable Works:	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)

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]

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 was an assistant professor at Tufts University from 1998 to 2005, associate professor at Tufts from 2005 to 2020, and is currently professor in the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts. He also lectures at the Fletcher School.

Taliaferro is on the editorial board for International Security and Security Studies. He previously served on the editorial board 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. Taliaferro has held fellowships at the Wilson Center and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.^[2]

Taliaferro 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] Taliaferro's most recent solo-authored book Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy (2019) extends neoclassical realist theory to the study of coercive diplomacy between allies and nuclear nonproliferation.^[4]

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.|^[5]
• 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.^{[6] [7]}
• 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.^[8]
• 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.^{[9] [10] [11]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jeffrey Taliaferro Department of Political Science . Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences.
2. Web site: Jeffrey Taliaferro . Tufts University.
3. Web site: Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics . en.
4. Web site: Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy. en.
5. Bano . Saira . Book review: Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Non-proliferation in US Foreign Policy . Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs . April 2021 . 8 . 1 . 127–129 . 10.1177/2347797021992166 . en . 2347-7970.
6. 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 .
7. Chandra . Vikash . Neoclassical realist theory of international politics . Strategic Analysis . 4 May 2017 . 41 . 3 . 297–299 . 10.1080/09700161.2017.1295611 .
8. Joshi . Yogesh . 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 . January 2012 . 49 . 1-2 . 154–158 . 10.1177/0020881713504686 . en . 0020-8817.
9. Pickering . Jeffrey . Review of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery . Political Science Quarterly . 2005 . 120 . 2 . 306–307 . 0032-3195.
10. Ikenberry . G. John . Review of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery . Foreign Affairs . 2004 . 83 . 5 . 166–166 . 10.2307/20034083 . 0015-7120.
11. Bakich . Spencer D. . Review of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery . The Virginia Quarterly Review . 2004 . 80 . 4 . 275–275 . 0042-675X.