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2023

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Citations
14408
World Ranking
254
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Richard Ned Lebow is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields within social sciences and arts and humanities, with a notable focus on sociology, political science, international relations, and philosophy.

The scientist's research concentrates on several main topics, including:

  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Philosophy, Science, and History
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
  • Critical Realism in Sociology
  • Nuclear Issues and Defense

Key subfields of study involve:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Their recent papers reflect an active engagement with contemporary and historical topics in international affairs and political theory. Notable publications include:

  • "International Relations Theory and the Ukrainian War," 2022, Analyse & Kritik
  • "What is Classical Realism?", 2024, Analyse & Kritik
  • "Fear, pathogens and political order," 2021, Global Discourse
  • "A century of anarchy? War, normativity, and the birth of modern international order," 2025, International Affairs
  • "Durkheim et les Relations internationales," 2020, Études internationales

Richard Ned Lebow has collaborated frequently with various scholars. The most frequent co-authors are:

  • Feng Zhang
  • Ludvig Norman
  • Benoît Pélopidas
  • Eva Portel
  • Élie Baranets

Their work has appeared across several publication venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Analyse & Kritik
  • Global Discourse
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • International Affairs

Richard Ned Lebow has authored multiple books published by prominent academic presses, including:

  • Cambridge University Press: "The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations" (2022), "Ethics and International Relations" (2020), "Reason and Cause" (2020)
  • Oxford University Press: "Justice and International Order" (2022)
  • Cornell University Press eBooks: "Nuclear Crisis Management" (2020)

Best Publications

  • Psychology and Deterrence

    Robert Jervis;Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

  • Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • A Cultural Theory of International Relations

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • We All Lost the Cold War

    Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

  • The long peace, the end of the cold war, and the failure of realism

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Realism and the End of the Cold War

    William C. Wohlforth

  • A Cultural Theory of International Relations: Frontmatter

    Unknown

  • Rational Deterrence Theory: I Think, Therefore I Deter

    Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

  • The politics of memory in postwar Europe

    Richard Ned Lebow;Wulf Kansteiner;Claudio Fogu;Heidemarie Uhl

  • Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • God Gave Physics the Easy Problems: Adapting Social Science to an Unpredictable World

    Steven Bernstein;Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein;Steven Weber

  • DETERRENCE: The Elusive Dependent Variable

    Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

  • What's So Different about a Counterfactual?

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • White Britain and Black Ireland: The influence of stereotypes on colonial policy

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Nuclear crisis management

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • The Memory of Politics in Postwar Europe

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Nuclear Crisis Management: A Dangerous Illusion

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Good-Bye Hegemony!: Power and Influence in the Global System

    Simon Reich;Richard Ned Lebow;Richard Ned Lebow

  • Poking Counterfactual Holes in Covering Laws: Cognitive Styles and Historical Reasoning

    Philip E. Tetlock;Richard Ned Lebow

  • Windows of Opportunity: Do States Jump Through Them?

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • Lost in Transition: A Critical Analysis of Power Transition Theory

    Richard Ned Lebow;Benjamin Valentino

  • Unmaking the West : "what-if?" scenarios that rewrite world history

    Philip Tetlock;Richard Ned Lebow;Geoffrey Parker

  • The art of bargaining

    Richard Ned Lebow

  • The tragic vision of politics: Name index

    Unknown

  • Psychology and Deterrence

    Andrew J. Pierre;Robert Jervis;Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

  • Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis@@@Conflict and Compromise: International Law and World Order in a Revolutionary Age

    L. L. Farrar;Richard Ned Lebow;Edward McWhinney

Frequent Co-Authors

Janice Gross Stein
Janice Gross Stein University of Toronto
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Robert Jervis
Robert Jervis Columbia University
Steven Bernstein
Steven Bernstein University of Toronto
Scott D. Sagan
Scott D. Sagan Stanford University
Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama Stanford University
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill University College London
Patrick James
Patrick James University of Southern California
Colin S. Gray
Colin S. Gray University of Reading
Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder Columbia University

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