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. Taliaferro is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, where he has taught since 1997. His research and teaching focus on security studies, international relations theory, international history and politics, and United States foreign policy. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Duke University and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.

Professor Taliaferro is the author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (Cornell University Press, 2004), which won 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 International Security, Security Studies, and Political Psychology and several edited volumes. He is co-editor, along with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin P. Ripsman, of Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and of The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

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, and co-writing (with Lobell and Ripsman), Neoclassical Realism: A Research Agenda, which is under contract at Oxford University Press.

Working Papers

• "Statesman State and Balance of Power," paper delivered at the annual International Security and Arms Control Conference, Montreal, October, 2007
• "State Building for Future Wars: Neoclassical Realism and the Resource-Extractive State," Security Studies, vol. 15, no. 3 (July-September 2006): 464-495

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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