The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars. This item is unavailable.The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars

Historians and political scientists re-examine the conventional wisdom of grand strategies pursued by the great powers during the interwar years.

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 Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2009).

Norrin M. Ripsman is Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.

Steven E. Lobell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.