This last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics. The author writes about topics in psychology, tragedy, and ethics. All of these fields are being put into relation with political aspects, especially international relations.
This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis. The political psychology contributions draw on richer, ancient Greek understandings of the psyche and offer novel insights into strategies of conflict management, the role of emotions in international relations, and the modern fixation on identity.
This is the first of four volumes to be published as part of this book series, on the life and work of Richard Ned Lebow. In a career spanning six decades, Richard Ned Lebow has made important contributions to the study of international relations, political and intellectual history, motivational and social psychology, philosophy of science, and classics. He has authored, coauthored or edited 30 books and almost 250 peer-reviewed articles. Thes...
Presents a new theory of the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes.
A new theory by one of the world's leading scholars of international politics, analysing the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, and exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes. For students and scholars of IR, political theory, history, sociology and social psychology.
Self-interest is an important human motive and this book explores its evolution in the United States and its consequences for politics, business, and personal relationships. In the postwar era American understandings of self-interest have moved away from Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of “self-interest well-understood” – in which people recognize that their interests are served by the success of the community of which they are part – towards ...
Richard Ned Lebow is a leading scholar of international relations and US foreign policy. His work has centred on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making. The essays here build on this theme in Lebow's work by presenting his substantive and compelling critique of strategies of deterrence and compellence.
Coercion, Cooperation and Ethics in International Relations "brings together the recent essays of, Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and U.S. Foreign Policy. Lebow's work has centered on the instrumental value of ethics in foreign policy decision making and the disastrous consequences which follow when ethical standard are flouted. Unlike most realists who have considered ethical considerations irrelevan...
‘Ned Lebow is one of the most energetic, challenging and innovative writers on international relations. His arguments are always original and thought provoking.'
–Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London, UK
‘Ned Lebow is one of the greatest IR scholars of the last half century, and some of his greatest contributions have been to our understanding of how best to manage and prevent international crise...
An engaging and startling counterfactual history of the world, as if WWI had never happened. There is no Israel, JFK and Obama do not become president, antibiotics come on line decades later and many other cultural and scientific developments take a completely different direction. A unique perspective on our world without the Great War, published in its centenary year.
In The Art of Bargaining, Richard Ned Lebow draws on his years of experience with the United States government, NATO, and numerous European and American businesses to explain the principles of negotiation - from buying a car to planning business mergers to signing an international treaty. Unlike studies that examine only what is said and done at the negotiation table, The Art of Bargaining looks at the context in which negotiation takes place ...
When is war is the result of a nation's deliberate decision to advance its vital interests by force of arms? When is it brought about by miscalculation? What causes policy-makers to misjudge the consequences of their actions? This book takes up these and other questions in a comparative study of the origins, politics, and outcomes of international crisis based on data from 27 historical cases.
This book examines national identity, the functions it serves, and its implications for foreign policy and international politics. Richard Ned Lebow explores how problematic identity is for certain perspectives on foreign policy analysis, questioning the link between principles of justice, identity, and behaviour and policy.
Richard Ned Lebow provides an analysis of the historical causes and consequences of war. He argues that war should become less frequent in the future because territorial conquest has become more difficult and costly, reducing the incentive to make war for material rewards.
Contemporary International Relations is as much a conversation between the living and the dead as it is among the living. Its debates are thoroughly rooted in and shaped by the thought of many bygone minds, both ancient and modern. With this in mind, The Return of the Theorists presents forty imagined dialogues with foundational theorists. They run the gamut from Homer and Confucius to Hedley Bull and Jean Bethke Elshtain, and span almost thre...
