Professor Richard Ned Lebow

Professor Richard Ned Lebow

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

In Search of Ourselves: The Politics and Ethics of Identity (Cambridge: University Press, in press)

Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press,

2010). Chinese translation forthcomiung.

Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2010).

A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press,

2008). Chinese and Japanese translations forthcoming.

Coercion, Cooperation and Ethics (New York: Routledge, 2006).

The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003).

The Art of Bargaining (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

We All Lost the Cold War, co-authored with Janice Gross Stein (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

When Does Deterrence Succeed and How Do We Know?, with Janice Gross Stein (Ottawa: Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, 1990). French edition, 1990.

Nuclear Crisis Management: A Dangerous Illusion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, January 1987).

Psychology and Deterrence, co-authored with Robert Jervis and Janice Gross Stein (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985).

Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981).

White Britain and Black Ireland: Social Stereotypes and Colonial Policy (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1976).

EDITED BOOKS

Tragedy and International Relations, coedited with Toni Erskine (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, in press).

Unmaking the West: “What-If” Scenarios that Rewrite World History co-edited with Philip Tetlock and Geoffrey Parker. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).

Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations, co-edited with Mark I. Lichbach (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).

The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner. (Duke University Press, 2006).

Ending the Cold War, co-edited with Richard K. Herrmann (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003).

International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, co-edited with Thomas Risse-Kappen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).

Hegemonic Rivalry: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age, co-edited with Barry R. Strauss (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991).

The Fallacy of Star Wars, co-authored with Hans Bethe, Richard Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, Henry Kendall, et al. (New York: Random House, 1984).

Richard Cobden,England, Ireland and America (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980).

John Stuart Mill on Ireland(Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979).

Divided Nations in a Divided World, co-authored and edited with Gregory Henderson and John G. Stoessinger (New York: David McKay, 1974).

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

"Explaining War," Symposium on Richard Ned Lebow's. Why Nations Fight, Security Studies, forthcoming.

"German Jews and American Realism," Constellations, forthcoming.

"Identity," Encylopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

"Culture and International Relations," H-DIPLO "Symposium on Richard Ned Lebow's Cultural Theory of International Relations," to be uploaded next month.

"Philosophy and International Relations: A Review Essay, "International Affairs (Chatham House), 87, no 5 (2011), pp. 1219-28.

“Are Democracies Aggressive? Is the United States Aggressive? An Exchange,” Other contributors are Seth Johnston, Dan Reiter and John Schuessler, St Antony’s International Review 7, no. 1 (2011), pp. 166–188.

“Aggressive Democracies,"St. Anthony’s International Review, 6, no. 2 (2011), pp. 120–133.

"American Social Scientists and the Military: World War II to the Present," in Joey Ansorge, Tarak Barkawi and Dorothy Noyes, eds., Overwhelming Knowledge: Experience and Expertise in Contemporary Conflict, forthcoming.

“Achilles, Neuroscience and International Relations,” to appear in Daniel Jacobi and Annette Freyberg-Inan, eds., Man, Agency and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Thucydides and International Relations Theory,” to appear in Neville Morley, ed., Thucydides and the Modern World: Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to Today (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

"Spirit, Recognition and Foreign Policy: Germany and World War II," too appear in Erik, Ringmar, The International Politics of Recognition (Boulder, Co.: Paradigm, forthcoming).

"Mexico and Iraq: Continuity and Change in the Bush Administration," coauthored with David Bohmer Lebow. To appear in David B. MacDonald, The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas and the War on Terror (Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press, 2010).

"The Past and Future of War," Presented as the E. H. Carr Lecture, University of Wales. in International Relations 24, no. 3 (September 2010), pp. 1-28.

“Motives, Evidence and Identity: Engaging My Critics," International Theory, 2-3 (2010), pp. 486-94.

“Social Science: Science or Social Practice?,” in Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall,

Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas Onuf, eds., On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge: Friedrich Kratochwil’s Contributions to the Study of International Relations(New York: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 102-12.

“The End of the Cold War as a Non-Linear Confluence,” to appear in Vit Smetana, Oldrich Tuma and Kathleen Geaney, eds., The End of the Cold War: A Twenty Year Retrospective.

"Constitutive Causality: Imagined Spaces and Political Practices," Millennium, 38, no. 2(December 2009), pp. 1-29.

"Culture and International Relations: The Culture of International Relations," Millennium 38, no. 1 (Summer 2009), pp. 1-7.

“Lost in Transition: A Critique of Power Transition Theories,” coauthored with Benjamin Valentino, International Relations, 23, no. 3 (September 2009), pp. 389-410.

“Counterfactuals, History and Fiction,” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 34, no. 2 (2009), pp. 57-73.

"Homer, Virgil, Social Psychology and Identity," in Gideon Baker and Jens Bartelson, eds., The Future of Political Community (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 144-75.

"Theory, Motives, Falsification," International Relations (2009), 23, no. 1, 167-71.

“Future Conditional: The U.S. and its Past,” in Kerstin v. Lingen, ed.,

Kriegserfahrung und Nationale Identität in Europa nach 1945 (Paderborn: Schoeningh,

2009), pp. 74-91.

“Identity and International Relations,” International Relations (2008) 22, no. 4, pp. 473-92.

"Learning from Contingency: The Case of World War I," International Journal, 63, no. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 447-459.

“Realism,” in Walter Carlsnaes, ed., International Relations, an ISPP on-line encyclopedia of international relations.

“Deterrence: Critical Analysis and Research Questions,” in Myriam Dunn and Victor Mauer, eds., The Routledge Companion to Security Studies.

“Deterrence,” in Nigel Young, ed., Routledge International Encyclopedia of Peace(London: Routledge, 2008)

“Revisiting the Falklands Intelligence Failures” RUSI, 152, no. 4 (Summer 2007), pp. 68-73.

“The Future of Memory,” TheAnnals 616, no. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 25-41. Reprinted in Kerstin

v. Lingen, ed., Kriegserfahrung und Nationale Identität in Europa nach 1945 (Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2009), pp. 440-54.

“The Ancient Greeks and Modern Realism: Ethics, Persuasion, and Power,” in Duncan S. Bell, ed., Tragedy, Power, and Justice: Realism and Global Political Theory. (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2008), pp. 26-40.

“Thucydides on Deterrence,” Security Studies16, no. 2 (April-June 2007), pp. 1-26

“Science as an Ethical Practice,” Journal of International Relations and Development, 10, no. 1 (March 2007), pp. 16-24.

“Classical Realism,” in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith, eds., International Relations Theories; Discipline and Diversity (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007), pp. 52-70. Revised version to appear in revised 2008 edition.

“Texts, Paradigms and Political Change,” in Toni Erskine and Michael Williams, eds., Reconsidering Realism: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2007), pp. 241-68.

“Reason Divorced from Reality: Thomas Schelling and Strategic Bargaining,” International Politics, 43, no. 4 (Autumn 2006), pp. 429-52.

“The Bush Administration and Iraq: The Mother of all Intelligence Failures,” Intelligence and National Security, 22 no. 5 (2006), pp. 884-909. Coauthored with Michael Fitzgerald.

“John Lukacs, Meet Madame Jourdain,” Historically Speaking, 7 no. 4(March/April 2006), pp. 50-51.

”Counterfactual Thought Experiments: A Necessary Research Tool,”The History Teacher, 40, no. 2 (February 2007), pp. 153-76.

“What Can We Know? How Do We Know,” in Richard Ned Lebow and Mark Lichbach, eds., Political Knowledge and Social Inquiry (New York: Palgrave, 2007), pp. 1-22.

“Social Science as Case-Based Diagnostics,” coauthored with Steven Bernstein, Janice Stein and Steven Weber, to in Lebow and Lichbach, Political Knowledge and Social Inquiry, pp. 229-60

“Counterfactuals and International Relations,” in Yoshinobu Araki and Yochiro

Sato, eds., New Theories in International Politics (Tokyo: Buren Shuppan, 2007).

“If Mozart Had Died at Your Age: Psychologic vs. Statistical Inference,” Political Psychology 27 (April 2006), pp. 157-72.

“Fear, Interest and Honour: Outlines of a Theory of International Relations,” International Affairs 82, no. 3 (May 2006), pp. 539-66.

“Running Red Lights and Ruling the World,” in Jőrg Caliess and Christoph Weller, eds., Chancen fűr den Frieden: Theoretische Orientierungen fűrFriedenspolitik und Friedensarbeit, Loccumer Protokolle 76/3 (Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische-Akademie Loccum, 2006), pp. 101-64.

“The Memory of Politics,” in Richard Ned Lebow, Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner, eds., The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 1-39.

“Robert S. McNamara: Max Weber’s Nightmare,” International Relations, 20 no. 2 (June 2006), pp. 211-24.

“Deterrence: Then and Now,” Journal of Strategic Studies 28 (October 2005), pp. 765-73. Revised version (2009), pp. 58-76.

“Power, Persuasion and Justice,” Millennium 33, no. 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 551-82. A slightly abbreviated version is reprinted in Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams, ed., Power in World Politics (London: Routledge, 2007), 120-40.

“Reason, Emotion and Cooperation,” International Politics, 42, no. 3 (2005), pp. 283-313.

“Tragedy, Politics and Political Science,” International Relations 19 (Spring 2005), pp. 329-36.

“Ethics and Foreign Policy,” Historically Speaking 6 (January/February 2005), pp. 20-23.

“The Dangers of Rampant Individualism,” A Reply to Critics. Historically Speaking 6

(January/February 2005), p.36.

“Constructive Realism,” International Studies Review 6 (June 2004), pp. 346-48.

“Good History Needs Counterfactuals,” Historically Speaking, 5 (February 2004), pp. 25-28. Reprinted in Donald Yerxa, ed., Recent Trends in Historical Thinking(Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press for the Historical Society, 2008), pp. 91-97.

“What Was the Cold War? When and Why Did it End?” in Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow, eds., Ending the Cold War (New York, Palgrave, 2004), pp. 1-30.

“Leadership and the End of the Cold War: A Counterfactual Thought Experiment,” co-authored with George Breslauer. In Herrmann and Lebow, eds., Ending the Cold War, pp. 161-88.

“The End of the Cold War as a Non-Linear Confluence,” co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, in Herrmann and Lebow, eds., Ending the Cold War, pp. 189-218.

“Not By Ideas Alone: Canada, the United States and the World,” in Graham Walker, ed., Independence in an Age of Empires: Multilateralism versus Unilateralism in the Post 9/11World (Halifax: Canadian Foreign Policy Society, 2004), pp. 153-58.

“A Data Set Named Desire: A Reply to William P. Thompson,” International Studies Quarterly, 47 (June 2003), pp. 475-58.

“Ethics, Interests and Order,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 3 (Summer/Fall 2002), pp. 25-34; a variant, “Ethics and Interests,” in Proceedings of the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, 13-16 March, 2002, pp. 75-84.

“Globalization and Security: An Alternative World History,” in Doris Fuchs and Friedrich V. Kratochwil, eds., Transformative Change and Global Order: Reflections on Theory and Practice (Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2002).

“Redesigning Strategies of Coercive Bargaining,” Global Dialogue 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 119-32.

“Poking Counterfactual Holes in Covering Laws: Cognitive Styles and Political Learning,” co-authored with Philip E. Tetlock, American Political Science Review 95 (December 2001), pp. 829-43.

“Thucydides the Constructivist,” American Political Science Review 95 (September 2001), pp. 547-60. Reprinted in Philip Seib, ed., War and Conflict Communication: Critical Concepts (London: Routledge, 2010).

“Policymakers and the Cold War’s End: Micro and Macro Assessments of Contingency,” Co-authored with Richard K. Herrmann, Cold War History Bulletin Issue 12-13 (Fall-Winter 2001), pp. 337-40.

“Thucydides and Hegemony: Athens and the United States,” co-authored with Robert Kelly, Review of International Studies 27 (October 2001), pp. 1-17.

“Reflexivity: Methods and Evidence,” co-authored with Ted Hopf and Friedrich V. Kratochwil, Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier, 2001), pp. 12884-88.

“The Holocaust and Social Science: A Personal Odyssey," Light from the Ashes, Peter Suedfeld, ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001), pp. 248-71.

“The Beginning and Ending of War,” (Review Article), International Historical Review 23 (June 2001), pp. 368-73.

“Agency versus Structure in A. J. P. Taylor’s Origins of the First World War,” International Historical Review 23 (March 2001), pp. 51-72.

“Contingency, Catalysts and International System Change,” Political Science Quarterly 115 (Winter 2000-01), pp. 591-616. Reprinted in Gary Goertz and Jack S. Levy, Explaining War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 85-112.

“What’s So Different About a Counterfactual?,” World Politics 52 (July 2000), pp. 550-85. Reprinted in Kawata Junich and Yoshinobu Araki, eds., Handbook of Political Psychology (Tokyo: Hokuju Shuppan, forthcoming).

“Physics Got All the Easy Problems: Adapting Social Science to an Unpredictable World,” co-authored with Steven Bernstein, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber. European Journal of International Relations 6 (March 2000), pp. 43-76.

“The Rise and Fall of the Cold War,” Review of International Studies, Special Issue, 25, no. 5 (December 1999), pp. 21-39; reprinted in Michael Cox, Ken Booth and Timothy Dunne, ed., The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics, 1989-1999 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 41-58.

“Social Science, History and the Cold War: Pushing the Conceptual Envelope,” in Odd Arne Westad, Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (London: Frank Cass, 2000), pp. 103-25; and a variant under the title, “Social Science and History: Ranchers versus Farmers,” in Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman, eds., Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists and the Study of International Politics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 111-36.

"National Security in the Nuclear Age," The Oxford Companion to American Military History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 472-75 .

“Sarastro Meet Mao Zedong,” Opera Journal, 32 (December 1999), pp. 16-24; to be reprinted in Jounal of Political and Military Sociology) 29 (Spring 2002).

“We Still Don’t Know!,”(review article) Diplomatic History 22 (Fall 1998), pp. 627-32.

“Beyond Parsimony: Rethinking Theories of Coercive Bargaining,” European Journal of International Relations 4, No.1 (1998), pp. 31-66.

“Transitions and Transformations: Building International Cooperation,” Security Studies 6 (Spring 1997), pp. 154-79; reprinted as “Zmiany i transformacje: budowanie wspópracy miłdzynarodowej,” in Davis B. Bobrow, Edward Haliłak and Ryszard Ziba, eds., Bezpieczenstwo Narodowe i Miedzynarodowe u Schyłu XX Wieku (Warsaw: Fundacja Studiów Miłdzynarodowych, 1997), pp. 327-48.

“Theory and Practice in International Politics,” American Behavioral Scientist 40 (January 1997), pp. 360-62.

“Kriege und Erdbeben. Kann die Theorie der internationalen Politik konfliktpräventiv-wirken?,” Internationale Politik 51 (August 1996), pp. 17-20 [Wars and Earthquakes: What Can We Learn from Theory?]

"Thomas Schelling and Strategic Bargaining," International Journal 51 (Summer 1996), pp. 555-76. Reprinted in Matthew Evangelista, ed., Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in Political Science (New York: Routledge, 2005), vol 1, ch. 11.

"Play It Again Pericles: A Non-Realist Reading of Thucydides," European Journal of International Relations 2 (June 1996), pp. 231-58.

"International Relations Theory Since the End of the Cold War," Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 January 1996, pp. B 1-2.

"Back to the Past: Counterfactuals and the Cuban Missile Crisis," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, in Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, eds., Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological and Psychological Perspectives (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 119-48.

"Realism and the End of the Cold War," co-authored with John Mueller, [comments on an article by William Wohlforth] International Security 20 (Fall 1995), pp. 185-86.

"Deterrence and the Cold War," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, Political Science Quarterly, 110 (Summer 1995), pp. 157-82 (chapter 14 of We All Lost the Cold War). Abbreviated variants, "Nuclear Lessons from the Cold War," to appear in Ken Booth, ed., Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and BeyondCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 71-86; "Five Lessons from the Cold War," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein," Technology Review 98 (August-September 1995), pp. 69-72.

"We All Lost the Cold War! Can We Win the Peace?," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, in Gunther Bächler, ed., Friedens- un Konfliktforschung in Zeiten des Umbruchs (Peace and Conflict Research in Times of Radical Change) (Zurich: Verlag Rügger, 1992), pp. 129-44.

"Psychological Dimensions of Post-Cold War Foreign Policy," Stanley Renshon, ed., The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing and the Psychology of Political Leadership (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 235-46; Israel Affairs 2 (Spring-Summer 1996), pp. 46-56.

"The Long Peace, the End of the Cold War, and the Failure of Realism," International Organization 48 (Spring 1994), pp. 249-77; Lebow and Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 23-56.

"The Search for Accommodation: Gorbachev in Comparative Perspective," in Lebow and Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, pp. 167-86.

"International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War," co-authored with Thomas Risse-Kappen, in Lebow and Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, pp. 1-22.

"Reagan and the Russians," Atlantic Monthly 273 (February 1994), pp. 35-37. Reprinted in Robert Griffith and Paula Baker, Major Problems in American History Since 1945 (New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 2000).

"Afghanistan, Carter and Foreign Policy Change: The Limits of Cognitive Models," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, in Dan Caldwell and Timothy J. McKeown, eds., Diplomacy, Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George (Boulder: Westview, 1993), pp. 95-128.

"Domestic Politics and the Cuban Missile Crisis," Diplomatic History 14 (Fall 1990), 471-92. A revised version, "Why Was Cuba A Crisis? The Traditional and Revisionist Interpretations Reconsidered," in James Nathan, ed., His Finest Hour Revisited: The Cuban Missile Crisis in Retrospect (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992).

"Khrushchev Redux," review essay, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 47 (May 1991), 43-45.

"Thucydides and International Relations," co-authored with Barry S. Strauss, in Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S. Strauss, eds., Hegemonic Conflict: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991), 1-22.

"Thucydides, Power Transition, and the Causes of War," in Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S. Strauss, eds., Hegemonic Conflict: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991), 12568.

"Preventing War in the Middle East: When Do Deterrence and Reassurance Work," in Steven Spiegel, ed., Conflict Management in the Middle East (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991). Co-authored with Janice Gross Stein.

"Da Yalta a Malta- Nuova opportunità per le relazioni USA-URSS" [From Yalta to Malta: New Opportunities for Soviet-American Relations], Relazioni Internazionali 54 (new series) (June 1990), 14-23. Co-authored with Janice Gross Stein.

"Deterrence: The Elusive Dependent Variable," World Politics 42 (April 1990), 336-69. Co-authored with Janice Gross Stein.

"Loss of Control: Problems of Nuclear Command," in Robert L. Kahn and Mayer N. Zald, Organizations and Nation-States: New Perspectives on Conflict and Cooperation (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990), 357-93.