Richard Ned Lebow

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Richard Ned Lebow
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Lebow in January 2012 at the University of Hamburg
Born (1942-04-24) April 24, 1942 (age 83)
Academic background
Alma mater University of Chicago
Yale University
City University of New York
Thesis White Britain and Black Ireland: The Anglo-Irish colonial relationship  (1968)

Lebow taught political science, international relations, political psychology, political theory, methodology, public policy at universities in the United States and Europe and strategy at the Naval and National War Colleges. From 2002 until becoming emeritus in 2012, he was James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He taught courses in international relations, political psychology, political theory and Greek literature and philosophy. Since 2012, He has been professor of international political theory in the War Studies department of King’s College London and Bye-Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He taught courses on philosophy of science, scope and methods and ancient Greek conceptions of order and justice.

Lebow has held visiting positions, including:

In 2018, Lebow was accused of making an inappropriate joke riding in an elevator during a conference. Simona Sharoni, a feminist scholar and activist, took offense at the joke and reported Lebow to the International Studies Association (ISA). [4] [5] Lebow emailed her to apologize, but said that focusing on minor offenses harms the general fight for women rights. He refused to apologize in the way that the ISA sought from him. [6] [7]

Analysis

Lebow is a realist. [8]

Writing with Benjamin Valentino and critiquing power transition theory, Lebow states, "Power transition theorists have been surprisingly reluctant to engage historical cases in an effort to show that wars between great powers have actually resulted from the motives described by their theories." [9] :31

Honours

Fiction

Scholarly Books since 2003

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.
Winner of the Alexander L. George Award for the best book in political psychology.

References

  1. "Professor Richard Ned Lebow: Professor of International Political Theory". King's College London . Wikidata   Q124884413.
  2. Hamrah, Satgin (15 February 2015). "Interview - Richard Ned Lebow". E-International Relations. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  3. "Profile: Richard Lebow". dartmouth.edu. Dartmouth College.
  4. Marcus, Ruth. "She called his elevator joke offensive. He called her complaint 'frivolous.' Who's right?". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2018-08-13.
  5. Mangan, Katherine (6 May 2018). "He makes a joke. She isn't laughing: 'lingerie' comment in elevator leads to uproar among scholars". The Chronicle of Higher Education . Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  6. Lebow, Richard Ned (14 May 2018). "How my lame joke saw me fall foul of the campus zealots". The Spectator . Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  7. Sharoni, Simona (November 2018). "speaking up in the age of #MeToo and persistent patriarchy or what can we learn from an elevator incident about anti-feminist backlash". Feminist Review. 120 (1): 143–151. doi:10.1057/s41305-018-0127-6. ProQuest   2139801451.
  8. Lebow, Richard Ned (2003). The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests and Orders. Cambridge University Press. pp. xi. ISBN   978-0-521-53485-7. I too am a realist
  9. Ma, Xinru; Kang, David C. (2024). Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations. Columbia Studies in International Order and Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-55597-5.