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Name
Richard Lebow
Books
A Cultural Theory of Internatio, Why Nations Fight: Pas, The Tragic Vision of Politics, Archduke Franz Ferdinan, The Politics and Ethics of Identity
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Richard Ned Lebow (official date of birth April 24, 1942) is an American political scientist best known for his work in international relations, political psychology, classics and philosophy of science. He is Professor of International Political Theory at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College.
Born in Paris, France, sometime in 1941, Lebow lost his family in World War II. He was adopted by an American family, and grew up in New York City. He graduated from Lynbrook Senior High School in 1959 in Long Island, New York.
Onassis Foundation Fellow in Ancient Greek History and Culture
Overseas Fellow at St. Johns College, University of Cambridge
Honors
Election to the British Academy, 2017
Honorable Mention, Charles A. Taylor Book Award for the best book in interpretative methodologies and methods, for Causation in International Relations, 2016
Robert Jervis-Paul Schroeder Award for the best book in international history and politics from the American Political Science Association (A Cultural Theory of International Relations), 2009
Susan Strange Award for the best book international relations from the British International Studies Association (A Cultural Theory of International Relations), 2009
In July 2017, Lebow was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Books since 2003
Editor, Max Weber and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Avoiding War, Making Peace (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017).
National Identifications and International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Co-editor with Peer Schouten and Hidemi Suganami, Return of the Theorists: Dialogues with Dead Thinkers (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016.
Richard Ned Lebow: A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, History, Philosophy and Psychology, ed. Hans Günther Brauch (Heidelberg: Springer; New York: Dordrecht, 2016). 4 vols.
Constructing Cause in International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Goodbye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System, coauthored with Simon Reich (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014).
Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014).
The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Co-editor with Toni Erskine, Tragedy and International Relations (London: Palgrave, 2012).
Why Nations Fight: The Past and Future of War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2008). Winner of the Jervis-Schroeder Award (American Political Science Association) for the best book in history and international relations. Winner of the Susan Strange Award (British International Studies Association) for the best book of the year.
Coercion, Cooperation and Ethics (New York: Routledge, 2006).
The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Winner of the Alexander L. George Award for the best book in political psychology.
