Richard Ned Lebow
James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government
Centennial Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2008-2010)
217 Silsby
richard.ned.lebow@dartmouth.edu
B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., Yale University
Ph.D., City University of New York
Recent publications
- Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations, (Princeton, Winter 2008).
- A Cultural Theory of International Relations, Cambridge, September 2008.
- The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders
- 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, forthcoming.
- Conflict, Cooperation and Ethics, New York: Routledge, 2006.
- Social Inquiry and Political Knowledge, Co-edited with Mark Lichbach, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.
- The Ancient Greeks and Modern Realism: Ethics, Persuasion, and Power, Duncan S. Bell, ed.. Tragedy, Power, and Justice: Realism and Global Political Theory. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 26-40.
- “Thucydides on Deterrence,” Security Studies 16, 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.
- "Identity and International Relations", to appear in International Relations (Summer 2008) in a special issue dedicated to John Herz.
- "Learning from the First World War", to appear in International Journal 63, no. 2 (Summer 2008).
- “Revisiting the Falklands Intelligence Failures” RUSI, 152, no. 4 (Summer 2007), pp. 68-73.
- “The Future of Memory,” The Annals 616, no. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 25-41. , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Awarded the Alexander L. George Prize for the best book in political psychology.
Professional affiliations
- ex-President of the International Society of Political Psychology
- Onassis Foundation Fellow in Ancient Greek History and Culture (2006-2007)
- Overseas Fellow at St. Johns College, University of Cambridge (2007-2008)
Research interests
- Theory: international relations, conflict management, psychological models of learning, philosophy of social science
- Policy: conflict prevention, regional conflict, bargaining and negotiation
- Methods: case studies, psychological experiments, scenario generation
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