Richard Ned Lebow
James O. Freedman Presidential, Professor of Government, Eneritus, July 2012
Professor of War Studies, King's College London, July 2012
Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge
217 Silsby
richard.ned.lebow@dartmouth.edu
B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., Yale University
Ph.D., City University of New York
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Recent publications
- Tragedy and International Relations (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012); Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow, eds.
- The Politics and Ethics of Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations, (Princeton, 2010).
- Why Nations Fight: The Past and Future of War, (Cambridge, 2010).
- A Cultural Theory of International Relations, (Cambridge, 2008). Winner of the 2009 Jervis-Schroeder Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in history and international relations and winner of the Susan Strange Award of the British International Studies Association for the best book of the year.
- The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders, (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Winner of the 2004 Alexander L. George Award from the International Society of Political Psychology for the best book in political psychology.
- Learning from the Cold War, co-edited with Richard K. Herrmann (New York: Palgrave, 2004).
- The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
- Unmaking the West: "What-If" Scenarios that Rewrite World History, co-edited with Phil Tetlock and Geoffrey Parker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007).
- Conflict, Cooperation and Ethics, (New York: Routledge, 2006).
- Social Inquiry and Political Knowledge, Co-edited with Mark Lichbach (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).
Professional affiliations
- ex-President of the International Society of Political Psychology
- Onassis Foundation Fellow in Ancient Greek History and Culture (2006-2008)
- Overseas Fellow at St. Johns College, University of Cambridge (2007-2008)
- Research Scholar, Pembroke College (2009-2010)
- Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge (2010)
- Centennial Professor, London School of Economics (2008-2011)
Research interests
- International relations, conflict management, psychological models of learning, philosophy of social science
- Conflict prevention, regional conflict, bargaining and negotiation
- Case studies, psychological experiments, scenario generation, counterfactuals, causation
- Identity, ethics
- Ancient and modern political theory
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