Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
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Jeffrey W. Taliaferro | |
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| Education | |
| Education | Duke University (AB) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st century |
| Region | North America |
| School | Neoclassical realism |
| Institutions | Tufts University |
| Main interests | |
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| Notable ideas | resource extraction, loss aversion, and balance-of-risk |
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is a professor of political science at Tufts University. His teaching and research focus on security studies and international relations theory.[1]
He received his A.B. from Duke University in political science and history and his A.M. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. Taliaferro was an assistant professor at Tufts University from 1998 to 2005, associate professor at Tufts from 2005 to 2020, and is currently professor in the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts. He also lectures at the Fletcher School.[1]
Taliaferro is on the editorial board for International Security and Security Studies. He previously served on the editorial board for the Review of International Studies (2010-2016), a journal of the British International Studies Association, and for the International Studies Review (2007-2011 and 2015–2021), a journal of the International Studies Association. Taliaferro has held fellowships at the Wilson Center and the Norwegian Nobel Institute.[2]
Taliaferro co-edited/co-authored Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (2009) and Neoclassical Realist Theory of International Politics (2016), which develop neoclassical realist theory in international relations, with Norrin M. Ripsman and Steven E. Lobell.[3] Taliaferro's most recent solo-authored book Defending Frenemies: Alliance Politics and Nuclear Nonproliferation in US Foreign Policy (2019) extends neoclassical realist theory to the study of coercive diplomacy between allies and nuclear nonproliferation.[4]