 | Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery Subjects: World politics -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1901–1910; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1912–1945; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945–1953; Imperialism -- History -- 20th century; Great powers often initiate risky military and diplomatic inventions in far-off, peripheral regions that pose no direct threat to them, risking direct confrontation with rivals in strategically inconsequential places. Why do powerful countries behave... Jeffrey W. Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. |
