Jeffrey Taliaferro

"Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Primacy of Power"

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Jeffrey Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, where he teaches courses on United States foreign policy, security studies, and the rise and the fall of the great powers. His research centers on international relations theories, security studies, political psychology, and U.S. foreign policy.

Taliaferro is author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (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 International Security, Security Studies, and Political Psychology, as well as two edited volumes.

Taliaferro has recently begun work on a project that examines the periodic recurrence of preemption and preventive war considerations in the grand strategies of the United States and other great powers.

Taliaferro has a bachelor's degree in history and political science from Duke University, with a master's and Ph.D. in government from Harvard. He has held grants and fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation, Institute for the Study of World Politics, National Science Foundation, and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Jeffrey Taliaferro
Associate Professor of Political Science
Tufts University