 Associate
Professor
 Jeffrey
W. Taliaferro - International Relations, Security Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997
Professor 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.
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 an edited
volume entitled, Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, which
is currently under review at a university press. Professor Taliaferro is writing
a book entitled The Primacy of Power: Realism and U.S. Grand Strategies, 1940-present,
which is under contract at Routledge. He has recently begun work on another book
project that examines the periodic recurrence of preemption and preventive war considerations
in the grand strategies of the United States and other great powers.
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 board of International Studies Review.
Prof. Taliaferro's Curriculum Vitae.
Prof. Taliaferro's web page.
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