Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
International Relations, Security Studies
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997
A.M., Harvard University, 1995
A.B., Duke University, 1991
Biography
Jeffrey W. (Jeff) Taliaferro teaches courses on United States
foreign policy, security studies, the rise and the fall of the great
powers, as well as introduction to international relations. His
research centers on international relations theories, security
studies, international history and politics, the grand strategies of
the great powers, political psychology, and U.S. foreign policy. He
joined the faculty of the Political Science Department in 1997.
Professor Taliaferro is the author of
Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2004), for which he
received the American Political Science Association's Robert L.
Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Award for the Best Book in
International History and Politics. His articles have appeared in
the journals International Security, Security Studies, and
Political Psychology and two edited volumes. He is co-editor
(and a contributor), along with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin P.
Ripsman, of
Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (New York
and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). Professor
Taliaferro is writing a book entitled The Primacy of American
Power: Neoclassical Realism and U.S. Grand Strategies, 1940-present,
which is under contract at Routledge. Along with Ripsman and Lobell,
he is editing another volume tentatively titled, Rethinking Grand
Strategies in the Interwar Period.
Professor Taliaferro has held grants and fellowships from the Smith
Richardson Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World
Politics, the National Science Foundation, and the Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He serves on
the editorial boards of International Studies Review (one of the
journals of the International Studies Association) and The Review of
International Studies (the official journal of the
British International
Studies Association.)
Working Papers
Courses Taught
PS 61: Introduction to
International Relations (spring 2010)
PS 72 (sophomore seminar):
Rethinking the Cold War (spring 2006)
PS 77: Realism and U.S. Grand
Strategy (spring 2008)
PS 160: Force, Strategy, and
Arms Control (spring 2006)
PS 165: United States
Foreign Policy (fall 2005)
PS 174: The Rise and the
Fall of the Great Powers (fall 2005)
INTR 91: International
Research Colloquium (spring 2006)
GMA P 240m Security Studies B:
The Emerging Security Paradigm (2005-2006)
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