Richard Ned Lebow

James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government

B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., Yale University
Ph.D., City University of New York

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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).
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.

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