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Richard Ned Lebow

    April 24, 1942
    The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations
    Avoiding War, Making Peace
    Good-Bye Hegemony!
    Constructing Cause in International Relations
    The Tragic Vision of Politics
    A Cultural Theory of International Relations
    • 2024

      This volume focuses on the assessments political actors make of the relative fragility and robustness of political orders. The core argument developed and explored throughout its different chapters is that such assessments are subjective and informed by contextually specific historical experiences that have important implications for how leaders respond. Their responses, in turn, feed into processes by which political orders change. The volume's contributions span analyses of political orders at the state, regional and global levels. They demonstrate that assessments of fragility and robustness have important policy implications but that the accuracy of assessments can only be known with certainty ex post facto. The volume will appeal to scholars and advanced students of international relations and comparative politics working on national and international orders.

      Robustness and Fragility of Political Orders
    • 2022

      Inspector Khan of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary investigates the murder of a serpent-tongued Cambridge professor whilst fending off the romantic overtures of an interfering local reporter. An escalating cat-and-mouse game develops between the police and a murderer who cannot control his impulses. It leads to a dramatic and humourous denouement in Berlin. This is a classic English murder mystery with the twist that the chief detective is a first-generation, well-educated, South Asian Muslim, who effectively exploits the often-stereotypic response of others to him to benefit his policing.

      Obsession
    • 2022

      Introduction -- Part 1. Principles of Justice in the West -- Justice in Confucianism -- Justice in Mohism, Legalism, Daoism -- Comparing East and West -- Part 2. International "Order" -- Justice and Order Between America and China -- Reimagining World Order -- Conclusion -- Smart Power and Great Learning.

      Justice and International Order
    • 2022

      What kinds of knowledge do international relations theories seek? How do they search for it and claim to have found it? Lebow uses his answers to these questions to say something important about the theory project in IR, and in the social sciences more generally.

      The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations
    • 2020

      Between Peace and War

      40th Anniversary Revised Edition

      • 572 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      The updated edition features three substantial new chapters, including a prologue and an epilogue, alongside fresh insights on World War I. It retains the influential typology of international crises and critiques of deterrence, while emphasizing agency and incorporating political psychology to analyze irrational policy-making. The new content reevaluates previous arguments, offering a critical assessment in light of developments following the Cold War, making it a vital resource for understanding contemporary international relations.

      Between Peace and War
    • 2020

      Taming Sino-American Rivalry

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      "Competition between America and China has intensified since 2009, creating even greater risks of conflict. Why is this so and what can be done about it? Feng Zhang and Ned Lebow identify the mistakes China and America made in their mutual relations and explain their causes and consequences. Drawing on international relations theory and historical lessons they develop a holistic approach to conflict management and resolution. It is based on a sophisticated staging of deterrence, reassurance, and diplomacy. Minimal deterrence combined with multiple forms of reassurance and sustained diplomatic efforts to reduce or finesse key areas of conflict offer the promising pathway for America and China to enhance their security and buttress their self-esteem"--

      Taming Sino-American Rivalry
    • 2020

      Ethics and International Relations

      • 270 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Foreign policies consistent with generally accepted ethical norms are more likely to succeed, and those at odds with them to fail. Constructing original data sets and analysing multiple case studies, Lebow makes an empirical case for ethics in international relations.

      Ethics and International Relations
    • 2019

      A Democratic Foreign Policy

      Regaining American Influence Abroad

      • 236 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Challenging the prevailing ideologies of both the Alt-Right and the national security establishment, this book presents an alternative vision for American foreign policy rooted in a tragic understanding of life and politics. The author, a distinguished scholar, critiques bipartisan approaches and emphasizes the significance of core American values in shaping both domestic and international policies. By offering a fresh perspective, the work aims to inspire a new congress and president to redefine America's role on the global stage.

      A Democratic Foreign Policy
    • 2018

      The Rise and Fall of Political Orders

      • 444 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      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.

      The Rise and Fall of Political Orders
    • 2018

      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. These four volumes are excerpts from this corpus. The first volume includes an intellectual autobiography, bibliography, and assessments of Lebow's contributions to diverse fields by respected authorities. It shows how a scholar's agenda evolves in response to world events and his efforts to grapple with them theoretically and substantively. It elaborates pathways for addressing these events and their consequences in an interdisciplinary manner, and offers new concepts and methods for doing so. Richard Lebow's research bridges international relations, psychology, history, classics, political theory and philosophy of science. He is author, coauthor, or editor of 34 books and almost 250 peer reviewed articles. Contributors to the book are: Simon Reich – Mervyn Frost - Janice Gross Stein - Stefano Guzzini – Markus Kornprobst - Harald Müller - Christian Wendt - Robert English.

      Richard Ned Lebow: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, History, Political Philosophy and Psychology