Professor Richard Ned Lebow
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
In Search of Ourselves: The Politics and Ethics of Identity (Cambridge: University Press, in
press)
Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2010). Chinese translation forthcomiung.
Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 2010).
A Cultural Theory of International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2008). Chinese and Japanese translations forthcoming.
Coercion, Cooperation and Ethics (New York: Routledge, 2006).
The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2003).
The Art of Bargaining (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
We All Lost the Cold War, co-authored with Janice Gross Stein (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1994).
When Does Deterrence Succeed and How Do We Know?, with Janice Gross Stein (Ottawa:
Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, 1990). French edition, 1990.
Nuclear Crisis Management: A Dangerous Illusion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, January
1987).
Psychology and Deterrence, co-authored with Robert Jervis and Janice Gross Stein (Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985).
Between Peace and War: The Nature of International Crisis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1981).
White Britain and Black Ireland: Social Stereotypes and Colonial Policy (Philadelphia: Institute
for the Study of Human Issues, 1976).
EDITED BOOKS
Tragedy and International Relations, coedited with Toni Erskine (London: PalgraveMacmillan, in press).
Unmaking the West: “What-If” Scenarios that Rewrite World History co-edited with Philip
Tetlock and Geoffrey Parker. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations, co-edited with Mark
I. Lichbach (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe, co-edited with Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner.
(Duke University Press, 2006).
Ending the Cold War, co-edited with Richard K. Herrmann (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan,
2003).
International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, co-edited with Thomas RisseKappen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
Hegemonic Rivalry: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age, co-edited with Barry R. Strauss
(Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991).
The Fallacy of Star Wars, co-authored with Hans Bethe, Richard Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, Henry
Kendall, et al. (New York: Random House, 1984).
Richard Cobden, England, Ireland and America (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human
Issues, 1980).
John Stuart Mill on Ireland (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979).
Divided Nations in a Divided World, co-authored and edited with Gregory Henderson and John
G. Stoessinger (New York: David McKay, 1974).
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
"Explaining War," Symposium on Richard Ned Lebow's. Why Nations Fight, Security Studies,
forthcoming.
"German Jews and American Realism," Constellations, forthcoming.
"Identity," Encylopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press), forthcoming.
"Culture and International Relations," H-DIPLO "Symposium on Richard Ned Lebow's
Cultural Theory of International Relations," to be uploaded next month.
"Philosophy and International Relations: A Review Essay, "International Affairs (Chatham
House), 87, no 5 (2011), pp. 1219-28.
“Are Democracies Aggressive? Is the United States Aggressive? An Exchange,” Other
contributors are Seth Johnston, Dan Reiter and John Schuessler, St Antony’s
International Review 7, no. 1 (2011), pp. 166–188.
“Aggressive Democracies," St. Anthony’s International Review, 6, no. 2 (2011), pp. 120–133.
"American Social Scientists and the Military: World War II to the Present," in Joey Ansorge,
Tarak Barkawi and Dorothy Noyes, eds., Overwhelming Knowledge: Experience and
Expertise in Contemporary Conflict, forthcoming.
“Achilles, Neuroscience and International Relations,” to appear in Daniel Jacobi and Annette
Freyberg-Inan, eds., Man, Agency and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming).
“Thucydides and International Relations Theory,” to appear in Neville Morley, ed., Thucydides
and the Modern World: Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance
to Today (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"Spirit, Recognition and Foreign Policy: Germany and World War II," too appear in Erik,
Ringmar, The International Politics of Recognition (Boulder, Co.: Paradigm,
forthcoming).
"Mexico and Iraq: Continuity and Change in the Bush Administration," coauthored with David
Bohmer Lebow. To appear in David B. MacDonald, The Bush Leadership, the Power of
Ideas and the War on Terror (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).
"The Past and Future of War," Presented as the E. H. Carr Lecture, University of Wales. in
International Relations 24, no. 3 (September 2010), pp. 1-28.
“Motives, Evidence and Identity: Engaging My Critics," International Theory, 2-3 (2010), pp.
486-94.
“Social Science: Science or Social Practice?,” in Oliver Kessler, Rodney Bruce Hall,
Cecelia Lynch and Nicholas Onuf, eds., On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge: Friedrich
Kratochwil’s Contributions to the Study of International Relations (New York:
Palgrave, 2010), pp. 102-12.
“The End of the Cold War as a Non-Linear Confluence,” to appear in Vit Smetana, Oldrich
Tuma and Kathleen Geaney, eds., The End of the Cold War: A Twenty Year
Retrospective.
"Constitutive Causality: Imagined Spaces and Political Practices," Millennium, 38, no. 2
(December 2009), pp. 1-29.
"Culture and International Relations: The Culture of International Relations," Millennium 38,
no. 1 (Summer 2009), pp. 1-7.
“Lost in Transition: A Critique of Power Transition Theories,” coauthored with Benjamin
Valentino, International Relations, 23, no. 3 (September 2009), pp. 389-410.
“Counterfactuals, History and Fiction,” Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung,
34, no. 2 (2009), pp. 57-73.
"Homer, Virgil, Social Psychology and Identity," in Gideon Baker and Jens Bartelson, eds., The
Future of Political Community (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 144-75.
"Theory, Motives, Falsification," International Relations (2009), 23, no. 1, 167-71.
“Future Conditional: The U.S. and its Past,” in Kerstin v. Lingen, ed.,
Kriegserfahrung und Nationale Identität in Europa nach 1945 (Paderborn: Schoeningh,
2009), pp. 74-91.
“Identity and International Relations,” International Relations (2008) 22, no. 4, pp. 473-92.
"Learning from Contingency: The Case of World War I," International Journal, 63, no. 2
(Spring 2008), pp. 447-459.
“Realism,” in Walter Carlsnaes, ed., International Relations, an ISPP on-line encyclopedia of
international relations.
“Deterrence: Critical Analysis and Research Questions,” in Myriam Dunn and Victor Mauer,
eds., The Routledge Companion to Security Studies.
“Deterrence,” in Nigel Young, ed., Routledge International Encyclopedia of Peace (London:
Routledge, 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. Reprinted in
Kerstin
v. Lingen, ed., Kriegserfahrung und Nationale Identität in Europa nach 1945
(Paderborn: Schoeningh, 2009), pp. 440-54.
“The Ancient Greeks and Modern Realism: Ethics, Persuasion, and Power,” in 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.
“Classical Realism,” in Tim Dunne, Milja Kurki and Steve Smith, eds., International Relations
Theories; Discipline and Diversity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 52-70.
Revised version to appear in revised 2008 edition.
“Texts, Paradigms and Political Change,” in Toni Erskine and Michael Williams, eds.,
Reconsidering Realism: The Legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau in International Relations
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 241-68.
“Reason Divorced from Reality: Thomas Schelling and Strategic Bargaining,” International
Politics, 43, no. 4 (Autumn 2006), pp. 429-52.
“The Bush Administration and Iraq: The Mother of all Intelligence Failures,” Intelligence and
National Security, 22 no. 5 (2006), pp. 884-909. Coauthored with Michael Fitzgerald.
“John Lukacs, Meet Madame Jourdain,” Historically Speaking, 7 no. 4(March/April 2006),
pp. 50-51.
”Counterfactual Thought Experiments: A Necessary Research Tool,” The History Teacher, 40,
no. 2 (February 2007), pp. 153-76.
“What Can We Know? How Do We Know,” in Richard Ned Lebow and Mark Lichbach, eds.,
Political Knowledge and Social Inquiry (New York: Palgrave, 2007), pp. 1-22.
“Social Science as Case-Based Diagnostics,” coauthored with Steven Bernstein, Janice Stein
and Steven Weber, to in Lebow and Lichbach, Political Knowledge and Social Inquiry,
pp. 229-60
“Counterfactuals and International Relations,” in Yoshinobu Araki and Yochiro
Sato, eds., New Theories in International Politics (Tokyo: Buren Shuppan, 2007).
“If Mozart Had Died at Your Age: Psychologic vs. Statistical Inference,” Political
Psychology 27 (April 2006), pp. 157-72.
“Fear, Interest and Honour: Outlines of a Theory of International Relations,” International
Affairs 82, no. 3 (May 2006), pp. 539-66.
“Running Red Lights and Ruling the World,” in Jőrg Caliess and Christoph Weller, eds.,
Chancen fűr den Frieden: Theoretische Orientierungen fűrFriedenspolitik und
Friedensarbeit, Loccumer Protokolle 76/3 (Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische-Akademie
Loccum, 2006), pp. 101-64.
“The Memory of Politics,” in Richard Ned Lebow, Claudio Fogu and Wulf Kansteiner, eds.,
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
2006), pp. 1-39.
“Robert S. McNamara: Max Weber’s Nightmare,” International Relations, 20 no. 2 (June
2006), pp. 211-24.
“Deterrence: Then and Now,” Journal of Strategic Studies 28 (October 2005), pp. 765-73.
Revised version (2009), pp. 58-76.
“Power, Persuasion and Justice,” Millennium 33, no. 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 551-82. A slightly
abbreviated version is reprinted in Felix Berenskoetter and M. J. Williams, ed., Power in
World Politics (London: Routledge, 2007), 120-40.
“Reason, Emotion and Cooperation,” International Politics, 42, no. 3 (2005), pp. 283-313.
“Tragedy, Politics and Political Science,” International Relations 19 (Spring 2005), pp. 329-36.
“Ethics and Foreign Policy,” Historically Speaking 6 (January/February 2005), pp. 20-23.
“The Dangers of Rampant Individualism,” A Reply to Critics. Historically Speaking 6
(January/February 2005), p.36.
“Constructive Realism,” International Studies Review 6 (June 2004), pp. 346-48.
“Good History Needs Counterfactuals,” Historically Speaking, 5 (February 2004), pp. 25-28.
Reprinted in Donald Yerxa, ed., Recent Trends in Historical Thinking (Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press for the Historical Society, 2008), pp. 91-97.
“What Was the Cold War? When and Why Did it End?” in Richard K. Herrmann and Richard
Ned Lebow, eds., Ending the Cold War (New York, Palgrave, 2004), pp. 1-30.
“Leadership and the End of the Cold War: A Counterfactual Thought Experiment,” co-authored
with George Breslauer. In Herrmann and Lebow, eds., Ending the Cold War, pp. 16188.
“The End of the Cold War as a Non-Linear Confluence,” co-authored with Janice Gross Stein,
in Herrmann and Lebow, eds., Ending the Cold War, pp. 189-218.
“Not By Ideas Alone: Canada, the United States and the World,” in Graham Walker, ed.,
Independence in an Age of Empires: Multilateralism versus Unilateralism in the Post
9/11World (Halifax: Canadian Foreign Policy Society, 2004), pp. 153-58.
“A Data Set Named Desire: A Reply to William P. Thompson,” International Studies
Quarterly,
47 (June 2003), pp. 475-58.
“Ethics, Interests and Order,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs 3 (Summer/Fall
2002), pp. 25-34; a variant, “Ethics and Interests,” in Proceedings of the 96th Annual
Meeting of the American Society of International Law, 13-16 March, 2002, pp. 75-84.
“Globalization and Security: An Alternative World History,” in Doris Fuchs and Friedrich V.
Kratochwil, eds., Transformative Change and Global Order: Reflections on Theory and
Practice (Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2002).
“Redesigning Strategies of Coercive Bargaining,” Global Dialogue 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 11932.
“Poking Counterfactual Holes in Covering Laws: Cognitive Styles and Political Learning,” coauthored with Philip E. Tetlock, American Political Science Review 95 (December
2001), pp. 829-43.
“Thucydides the Constructivist,” American Political Science Review 95 (September 2001), pp.
547-60. Reprinted in Philip Seib, ed., War and Conflict Communication: Critical
Concepts (London: Routledge, 2010).
“Policymakers and the Cold War’s End: Micro and Macro Assessments of Contingency,” Coauthored with Richard K. Herrmann, Cold War History Bulletin Issue 12-13 (FallWinter 2001), pp. 337-40.
“Thucydides and Hegemony: Athens and the United States,” co-authored with Robert Kelly,
Review of International Studies 27 (October 2001), pp. 1-17.
“Reflexivity: Methods and Evidence,” co-authored with Ted Hopf and Friedrich V. Kratochwil,
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Oxford: Elsevier, 2001), pp.
12884-88.
“The Holocaust and Social Science: A Personal Odyssey," Light from the Ashes, Peter
Suedfeld, ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001), pp. 248-71.
“The Beginning and Ending of War,” (Review Article), International Historical Review 23
(June 2001), pp. 368-73.
“Agency versus Structure in A. J. P. Taylor’s Origins of the First World War,” International
Historical Review 23 (March 2001), pp. 51-72.
“Contingency, Catalysts and International System Change,” Political Science Quarterly 115
(Winter 2000-01), pp. 591-616. Reprinted in Gary Goertz and Jack S. Levy, Explaining
War and Peace: Case Studies and Necessary Condition Counterfactuals (New York:
Routledge, 2007), pp. 85-112.
“What’s So Different About a Counterfactual?,” World Politics 52 (July 2000), pp. 550-85.
Reprinted in Kawata Junich and Yoshinobu Araki, eds., Handbook of Political
Psychology (Tokyo: Hokuju Shuppan, forthcoming).
“Physics Got All the Easy Problems: Adapting Social Science to an Unpredictable World,” coauthored with Steven Bernstein, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber. European Journal
of International Relations 6 (March 2000), pp. 43-76.
“The Rise and Fall of the Cold War,” Review of International Studies, Special Issue, 25, no. 5
(December 1999), pp. 21-39; reprinted in Michael Cox, Ken Booth and Timothy Dunne,
ed., The Interregnum: Controversies in World Politics, 1989-1999 (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 41-58.
“Social Science, History and the Cold War: Pushing the Conceptual Envelope,” in Odd Arne
Westad, Reviewing the Cold War: Approaches, Interpretations, Theory (London: Frank
Cass, 2000), pp. 103-25; and a variant under the title, “Social Science and History:
Ranchers versus Farmers,” in Colin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman, eds., Bridges
and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists and the Study of International Politics
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 111-36.
"National Security in the Nuclear Age," The Oxford Companion to American Military History
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 472-75 .
“Sarastro Meet Mao Zedong,” Opera Journal, 32 (December 1999), pp. 16-24; to be reprinted in
Jounal of Political and Military Sociology) 29 (Spring 2002).
“We Still Don’t Know!,”(review article) Diplomatic History 22 (Fall 1998), pp. 627-32.
“Beyond Parsimony: Rethinking Theories of Coercive Bargaining,” European Journal of
International Relations 4, No.1 (1998), pp. 31-66.
“Transitions and Transformations: Building International Cooperation,” Security Studies 6
(Spring 1997), pp. 154-79; reprinted as “Zmiany i transformacje: budowanie
wspópracy miłdzynarodowej,” in Davis B. Bobrow, Edward Haliłak and Ryszard
Ziba, eds., Bezpieczenstwo Narodowe i Miedzynarodowe u Schyłu XX Wieku
(Warsaw: Fundacja Studiów Miłdzynarodowych, 1997), pp. 327-48.
“Theory and Practice in International Politics,” American Behavioral Scientist 40 (January
1997), pp. 360-62.
“Kriege und Erdbeben. Kann die Theorie der internationalen Politik konfliktpräventivwirken?,” Internationale Politik 51 (August 1996), pp. 17-20 [Wars and Earthquakes:
What Can We Learn from Theory?]
"Thomas Schelling and Strategic Bargaining," International Journal 51 (Summer 1996), pp.
555-76. Reprinted in Matthew Evangelista, ed., Peace Studies: Critical Concepts in
Political Science (New York: Routledge, 2005), vol 1, ch. 11.
"Play It Again Pericles: A Non-Realist Reading of Thucydides," European Journal of
International Relations 2 (June 1996), pp. 231-58.
"International Relations Theory Since the End of the Cold War," Chronicle of Higher
Education, 26 January 1996, pp. B 1-2.
"Back to the Past: Counterfactuals and the Cuban Missile Crisis," co-authored with Janice Gross
Stein, in Philip E. Tetlock and Aaron Belkin, eds., Counterfactual Thought Experiments
in World Politics: Logical, Methodological and Psychological Perspectives (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 119-48.
"Realism and the End of the Cold War," co-authored with John Mueller, [comments on an
article by William Wohlforth] International Security 20 (Fall 1995), pp. 185-86.
"Deterrence and the Cold War," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, Political Science
Quarterly, 110 (Summer 1995), pp. 157-82 (chapter 14 of We All Lost the Cold War).
Abbreviated variants, "Nuclear Lessons from the Cold War," to appear in Ken Booth,
ed., Statecraft and Security: The Cold War and Beyond Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998), pp. 71-86; "Five Lessons from the Cold War," co-authored with
Janice Gross Stein," Technology Review 98 (August-September 1995), pp. 69-72.
"We All Lost the Cold War! Can We Win the Peace?," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein, in
Gunther Bächler, ed., Friedens- un Konfliktforschung in Zeiten des Umbruchs (Peace
and Conflict Research in Times of Radical Change) (Zurich: Verlag Rügger, 1992), pp.
129-44.
"Psychological Dimensions of Post-Cold War Foreign Policy," Stanley Renshon, ed., The
Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing and the Psychology of Political
Leadership (Boulder: Westview, 1995), pp. 235-46; Israel Affairs 2 (Spring-Summer
1996), pp. 46-56.
"The Long Peace, the End of the Cold War, and the Failure of Realism," International
Organization 48 (Spring 1994), pp. 249-77; Lebow and Risse-Kappen, International
Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War (New York: Columbia University Press,
1994), pp. 23-56.
"The Search for Accommodation: Gorbachev in Comparative Perspective," in Lebow and
Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War, pp. 167-86.
"International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War," co-authored with Thomas RisseKappen, in Lebow and Risse-Kappen, International Relations Theory and the End of the
Cold War, pp. 1-22.
"Reagan and the Russians," Atlantic Monthly 273 (February 1994), pp. 35-37. Reprinted in
Robert Griffith and Paula Baker, Major Problems in American History Since 1945 (New
York: Houghton, Mifflin, 2000).
"Afghanistan, Carter and Foreign Policy Change: The Limits of Cognitive Models," co-authored
with Janice Gross Stein, in Dan Caldwell and Timothy J. McKeown, eds., Diplomacy,
Force, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander L. George (Boulder: Westview,
1993), pp. 95-128.
"Domestic Politics and the Cuban Missile Crisis," Diplomatic History 14 (Fall 1990), 471-92.
A revised version, "Why Was Cuba A Crisis? The Traditional and Revisionist
Interpretations Reconsidered," in James Nathan, ed., His Finest Hour Revisited: The
Cuban Missile Crisis in Retrospect (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992).
"Khrushchev Redux," review essay, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 47 (May 1991), 43-45.
"Thucydides and International Relations," co-authored with Barry S. Strauss, in Richard Ned
Lebow and Barry S. Strauss, eds., Hegemonic Conflict: From Thucydides to the Nuclear
Age (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1991), 1-22.
"Thucydides, Power Transition, and the Causes of War," in Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S.
Strauss, eds., Hegemonic Conflict: From Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (Boulder, Co.:
Westview Press, 1991), 125-68.
"Preventing War in the Middle East: When Do Deterrence and Reassurance Work," in Steven
Spiegel, ed., Conflict Management in the Middle East (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press,
1991). Co-authored with Janice Gross Stein.
"Da Yalta a Malta -- Nuova opportunità per le relazioni USA-URSS" [From Yalta to Malta:
New Opportunities for Soviet-American Relations], Relazioni Internazionali 54 (new
series) (June 1990), 14-23. Co-authored with Janice Gross Stein.
"Deterrence: The Elusive Dependent Variable," World Politics 42 (April 1990), 336-69. Coauthored with Janice Gross Stein.
"Loss of Control: Problems of Nuclear Command," in Robert L. Kahn and Mayer N. Zald,
Organizations and Nation-States: New Perspectives on Conflict and Cooperation (San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990), 357-93.
"Extended Deterrence: Military Fact or Political Fiction," in Eric Arnett, ed., New Technologies
for Security and Arms Control: Threats and Promise (Washington, D.C.: American
Association for the Advancement of Science), 55-76.
"Rational Deterrence Theory: I Think Therefore I Deter," co-authored with Janice Gross Stein,
World Politics 41 (January 1989), 208-24.
"Deterrence: A Political and Psychological Critique," in Robert Axelrod, Robert Jervis, Roy
Radner, and Paul Stern, eds., Perspectives in Deterrence (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1989).
"Malign Analysts or Evil Empire? A Critique of Western Studies of Soviet Strategy,"
International Journal 44 (Winter 1988-89), 1-40.
"Provocative Deterrence: A New Look at the Cuban Missile Crisis," Arms Control Today 18
(July-August 1988), 15-16.
"A Rejoinder: the Case is Not Closed," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 44 (July-August 1988), 44.
"Siria-Israele: come evitare una guerra per errore," [Syria-Israel: Can Accidental War be
Prevented?], co-authored with Eli Levite, Relazioni Internazionali 52, new series (July
1988), 58-66.
"Was Khrushchev Bluffing in Cuba," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 44 (April 1988), 38-43.
"Interdisciplinary Research and the Future of Peace and Security Studies," Political Psychology
9 (June 1988), 507-25. Reprinted in William H. Newell, ed., Interdisciplinarity: Essays
from the Literature (New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1998), pp. 46380.
"Clausewitz and Nuclear Crisis Management," Political Science Quarterly 103 (Spring 88), 81110, and in Gilbert Winham, ed., New Issues in Crisis Management (Boulder, Co.:
Westview Press, 1988), 37-66, under the title, "Clausewitz, Loss of Control, and Crisis
Management."
"Threat and Illusion: Rethinking the Arms Race," Comprehensive Approaches to World Peace
(Vedbaek: Tokai University European Center, 1988), 71-83.
"Why Deterrence Doesn't Deter," Outlook Section, The Washington Post, 6 March 1988, C5.
"The Dangers of Quick Launch," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 43 (November 1987), 36-39.
"A Research Agenda for Peace and Security Studies," PS 20 (Summer 1987), 252-57.
"Nuclear Crisis Management: A Dangerous Illusion" [Chapter I of Nuclear Crisis Management:
A Dangerous Illusion (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, January 1987)] Political Science
Quarterly 102 (Summer 1987), 181-92; Jörg Calliess, ed., International Krisen und
Krisenbewältigung: Geschichte und Zukunft der Internationalen Ordnung unter den
Bedingungen der West-Ost Rivalität (Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie
Loccum, 1987), 63-74.
"Deterrence Failure Revisited: A Reply to the Critics," International Security 12 (Summer
1987), 197-213.
"Beyond Deterrence," co-authored with Janice Stein. Special issue of Journal of Social Issues
43, No. 4 (1987), 5-71.
"Beyond Deterrence: Building Better Theory," (co-authored with Janice Gross Stein), Journal of
Social Issues 43, No. 4 (1987), 155-69.
"Conventional and Nuclear Deterrence: Are the Lessons Transferable?," Journal of Social
Issues 43, No. 4 (1987), 171-91.
"Kognitive Blockierung und Krisenpolitik: Deutsche Entscheidungsträger im Juli 1914,"
Kriegsursachen, Friedensanalysen 21 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1987).
"Nuclear Crisis Management: A Dangerous Illusion," (Abbreviated version of Chapter I of
Nuclear Crisis Management) The Bulletin of Peace Proposals 17, No. 2 (1986), 107-12.
"Dominant Powers and Subordinate Regions: 1914 and Today," in Jan F. Triska, ed., Dominant
Powers and Subordinate States: The United States in Latin America and the Soviet
Union in Eastern Europe (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1986), 400-22.
"Deterrence Reconsidered," (extract from Psychology and Deterrence), in Ralph K. White, ed.,
Psychology and the Prevention of Nuclear War: A Book of Readings (New York: New
York University Press, 1986), 352-76; and Francesca Cancian and William Gibson,
Making War-Making Peace (Hinsdale, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1989).
"Decision Making in Crises," (extract from Between Peace and War), in Ralph K. White, ed.,
Psychology and the Prevention of Nuclear War: A Book of Readings (New York: New
York University Press, 1986), 397-413; and in Peter J. Katzenstein, Readings in
International Relations (Littleton, Mass.: Copley, 1987), 255-78.
"Leadership in Crisis", Science 1985, December 1985, 42-43.
"Generational Learning and Foreign Policy," International Journal 40 (Autumn 1985), 556-85.
Reprinted in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Readings in International Relations (Littleton,
Mass.: Copley, 1987), 255-77; Robert O. Matthews, Arthur G. Rubinoff, Janice G.
Stein, International Conflict and Conflict Management, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Prentice-Hall,
1989), 53-66.
"If I Were Ronald Reagan: Controlling the Arms Race," SAIS Review 5 (Summer-Fall 1985),
125-32. Reprinted in Current News, Special Reports, 15 September 1985.
"Assured Strategic Stupidity: In Pursuit of Star Wars," Journal of International Affairs 39
(Summer 1985), 57-80 and in Wolfram Hanrieder, ed., Technology, Strategy, and Arms
Control (Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1986), 65-92.
"The Soviet Offensive in Europe: The Schlieffen Plan Revisited?," International Security 9
(Spring 1985), 44-78. Reprinted in Current News, Special Edition, No. 1343, 10
September 1985, and Sean Lynn-Jones, ed., Soviet Military Policy (Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1989), pp. 312-46.
"Anti-Satellite Weapons: Weighing the Risks," co-authored with Kurt Gottfried, Dædalus 114
(Spring 1985), Vol I: Concepts and Technologies, 147-70; and in Franklin A. Long,
Jeffrey Boutwell, and Donald Hafner, eds., Weapons in Space (New York: W.W.
Norton, 1986), 147-70.
"Deterrence Reconsidered: The Challenge of Recent Research," Survival 27 (March-April,
1985), 20-29; reprinted in Catherine M. Kelleher, Frank J. Kerr, and George H. Quester,
eds., Nuclear Deterrence: New Risks, New Opportunities (New York: Pergamon Press,
1986), 129-48; Ralph K. White, ed., Psychology and the Prevention of Nuclear War: A
Book of Readings (New York: New York University Press, 1986), 352-75; abbreviated
version in World Encyclopedia of Peace (London: Pergamon, 1986).
"Two Practical Ways to Avoid Superpower Crises," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 41
(January 1985), 22-28.
Member Study Panel, Space-Based Missile Defense (Cambridge, Ma.: Union of Concerned
Scientists, 1984).
“Reagan’s Star War,” The New York Review of Books, 26 April 1984, 46-52. Coauthored with
Hans A. Bethe, Richard L. Garwin, Jurt Gottfried, Noel Gaylor, Henry W. Kendall and
Victor F. Weiskopf.
"The Paranoia of the Powerful: Thucydides on World War III," PS 17 (Winter 1984), 10-17.
"Thucydides on World War III: A Reply to Professor Bluhm," PS 18 (Summer 1984), 591-93.
"Windows of Opportunity: Do States Jump Through Them?," International Security 9 (Summer
1984), 147-86; reprinted in Current News, Special Edition, 19 September 1984, and
Steven E. Miller, ed., The Great War and the Nuclear Age (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1985), 147-86. Also published as Occasional Paper No. 46 of the
Research Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Bologna Center, November 1984.
German version, "Fenster der versuchung: Nutzen Staaten ihre Überlegenheit bis zum
letzten aus?," Beiträge zur Konfliktforschung No. 1 (January 1985), 31-62.
"Cognitive Closure and Crisis Politics," and "The Future of Crisis Management," (excerpts from
Between Peace and War) in Robert D. Matthews, Arthur G. Rubinoff, and Janice Gross
Stein, International Conflict and Conflict Management: Readings in World Politics
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984), 55-64, 94-104.
"Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: British and Argentine Intelligence Failures in the
Falkland Crisis," Journal of Strategic Studies 6 (March 1983), 1-29, reprinted in Jervis,
Lebow and Stein, Psychology and Deterrence (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1984); German version, Der Krieg, den keiner wollte: Fehlwahrnehmungen im
Falkland-Konflikt (Frankfurt: Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung,
October 1982), condensed version in Beiträge zur Konfliktforschung 13, No. 2 (1983),
67-98.
"The Deterrence Deadlock: Is There a Way Out?," Political Psychology 4 (June 1983), 333-54;
reprinted in Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow and Janice Gross Stein, Psychology and
Deterrence (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985); German translation,
Sackgassen der Abschreckung (Frankfurt: Haag & Herchen, 1985).
"The Cuban Missile Crisis: Reading the Lessons Correctly," Political Science Quarterly 98
(Autumn 1983), 431-58.
"The Superpowers and the Middle East: The Dynamics of Competition," Mark V. Kaupi and R.
Craig Nation, eds., The Soviet Union and the Middle East in the 1980s (Cambridge:
Lexington, 1983), 265-79.
"Misconceptions in American Strategic Assessment," Political Science Quarterly 97 (Summer
1982), 187-206; reprinted in Current News, Special Edition, No. 898, 26 August 1982;
Italian translation, "CIA Contro Dipartimento della Difesa: chi ha le percezioni piu
errate?," II Mulino 32 (July 1983), 944-69.
"Superpower Management of Security Alliances: The Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact."
Arlene Idol Broadhurst, ed., The Future of European Alliance Systems (Boulder,
Westview Press, 1982), pp. 185-236.
"If Wishes Were Horses and Beggars Were Kings," in Rudolph L. Brraham ed., Human Rights:
Contemporary Domestic and International Issues and Conflicts (New York: Irvington
Press, 1980), pp. 57-60.
"Clear and Future Danger: Managing Relations with the Soviet Union in the 1980s," R.J.
O'Neill and D.M. Horner, eds., New Directions in Strategic Thinking (London: George
Allen and Unwin, 1981), 221-45; condensed version in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
36 (May 1981), 14-21.
"Thucydides on Arms Control: His Speech to the American Senate," Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists 35 (December 1979), 6-7.
"Accidents and Crises: The Dogger Bank Affair, Naval War College Review 31 (Summer
1978), 66-75. Reprinted in Mark W. Janis and John E. Noyes, Cases and Commentary
on International Law (St. Paul: West Publishing, 1997), pp.217-21.
"The Origins of Sectarian Assassination: The Case of Belfast," Journal of International Affairs
32 (Spring 1978), 43-61; reprinted in John Carson, ed., Terrorism in Theory and Practice
(Toronto: The Atlantic Council of Canada, 1978), 31-56; and Alan D. Buckley et al.,
eds., International Terrorism: Current Research and Future Developments (Wayne, N.J.:
Avery, 1980).
"Vigilantism in Northern Ireland," in H. Jon Rosenbaum and Peter C. Sederberg, Vigilante
Politics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1975), 234-58.
"Divided Ireland," in Henderson, Lebow and Stoessinger, Divided Nations in a Divided World
(New York: David McKay, 1974), 197-266.
"Protestant Gunmen," The Irish-American Review 1 (Autumn 1974), 4-9.
"Civil War in Ireland: A Tragedy in Endless Acts?", Journal of International Affairs 27, No. 2
(1973), 247-60.
"Communal Conflict: A Review Essay," Journal of International Affairs 27, No. 1 (1973), 12225.
With Carol Bohmer, "Divorce Comparative Style: A Paradigm of Divorce Patterns," Journal of
Divorce 2 (Winter 1978), 157-74.
"John Stuart Mill and the Irish Land Question," in Richard Ned Lebow, ed., John Stuart Mill on
Ireland (Philadelphia: ISHI, 1979), 1-22.
"British Images of Poverty in Pre-Famine Ireland," in Daniel Casey and Richard Rhodes, ed.,
Views of the Irish Peasantry, 1800-1916 (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1977), 57-85.
"British Historians and Irish History," Eire-Ireland 8 (December 1973), 3-38.
With Jeffrey Morris, "Dien Bien Phu: Isn't He Emperor of Indochina?" Journal of General
Education (Autumn 1970), 133-64.
"The Morgenthau Peace Mission of 1917," Jewish Social Studies 22 (October 1970), 267-85.
"Woodrow Wilson and the Balfour Declaration," Journal of Modern History 40 (December
1968), 501-24.