Richard Ned Lebow: Key Texts in Political Psychology and International Relations Theory

Part of the Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice Book Series (volume 4)

Editors: Lebow, Richard Ned

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39964-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-39963-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 26, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction

Lebow, Richard Ned

Pages: 1 –2

[My interest in political psychology began in graduate school and guided by dissertation research into the nature of prejudice. White Britain and Black Ireland: The Nature of Colonial Stereotypes argues that much prejudice is innocently assimilated and can be combatted by contact and learning. A...
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Chapter 2Deterrence: A Political and Psychological Critique

Lebow, Richard Ned

Pages: 3 –24

[Postwar American security policy was built on a foundation of deterrence. In the early Cold War period, American leaders relied on nuclear deterrence to discourage Soviet or Chinese attacks against American allies in Western Europe and the Far East. When these countries developed the means to...
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Chapter 3Making Sense of the World

Lebow, Richard Ned

Pages: 25 –52

[Forbidden Fruit is an avowedly provocative but also inviting title. The two, as Eve knew, are often reinforcing. Her offer of the apple to Adam is an invitation to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and possibly transcend their human condition. It is a provocation because it involved violating the...
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Chapter 4Poking Counterfactual Holes in Covering Laws: Cognitive Styles and Political Learning

Tetlock, Philip E.; Lebow, Richard Ned

Pages: 53 –80

[The philosopher of science Carl Hempel (1965) advanced the controversial thesis that history, properly understood, is a prime candidate for reduction to the laws of social science. Events can only be considered “explained” when they have been assimilated into syllogisms that meet three...
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Chapter 5The Politics and Ethics of Identity: In Search of Ourselves

Lebow, Richard Ned

Pages: 81 –123

[Like so many of Hegel’s pithy observations, this one is suitably enigmatic. I am drawn to it because it can be read to capture, avant la lettre, and with admirable brevity, the implications of recent work on identity in psychology, analytical philosophy and political theory. This research...
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Chapter 6Greeks, Neuroscience, and International Relations

Lebow, Richard Ned

Pages: 125 –146

[From Plato to Rawls, philosophers have emphasized the need for reason to constrain or channel emotions if political orders are to be created and preserved. From the ancient Greeks to the present a minority of thinkers have been alert to the personal and social benefits of emotions. In the last...

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