Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy

Steven E. Lobell is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah. Norrin M. Ripsman is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. Professor Jeffrey Taliaferro is the author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (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 The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars (Cambridge, 2012).

'Neoclassical realism is now a major research program in the realist tradition. Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy is the first comprehensive discussion of the program, together with several of its different theories. This important book fills a significant gap in the International Relations sub-field, and it will be widely read and cited.' Colin Elman, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

• 1. Introduction: neoclassical realism, the state, and foreign policy Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Steven E. Lobell and Norrin M. Ripsman; 2. Threat assessment, the state, and foreign policy: a neoclassical realist model Steven E. Lobell; 3. Neoclassical realism and strategic calculations: explaining divergent British, French, and Soviet strategies toward Germany between the world wars (1919–39) Mark R. Brawley; 4. Neoclassical realism and identity: peril despite profit across the Taiwan Strait Jennifer Sterling-Folker; 5. Neoclassical realism and the national interests: presidents, domestic politics, and major military interventions Colin Dueck; 6. Neoclassical realism and domestic interest groups Norrin M. Ripsman; 7. Neoclassical realism and resource extraction: state building for future war Jeffrey W. Taliaferro; 8. Neoclassical realism and state mobilization: expansionist ideology in the age of mass politics Randall L. Schweller; 9. The limits of neoclassical realism: additive and interactive approaches to explaining foreign policy preferences Benjamin O. Fordham; 10. Conclusion: the state of neoclassical realism Norrin M. Ripsman, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Steven E. Lobell.