Richard Ned Lebow: Essential Texts on Classics, History, Ethics, and International Relations

This last one out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series focuses on various fields of social sciences and their connection to international politics. The author writes about topics in psychology, tragedy, and ethics. All of these fields are being put into relation with political aspects, especially international relations.

Introduction.- Understanding Tragedy and Understanding International Relations.- Learning from Tragedy and Refocusing International Relations.- German Jews and American Realism.- Nixon in Hell.

In a career spanning six decades Richard Ned Lebow has made contributions to the study of international relations, political and intellectual history, motivational and social psychology, philosophy of science, and classics. He has authored, coauthored or edited 30 books and almost 250 peer reviewed articles. These four volumes are excerpts from this corpus.