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  • Obsession

    Inspector Khan Mysteries, #1

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Khan Mysteries
    Inspector Khan of the Cambridgeshire Constabulary investigates the murder of a serpent-tongued Cambridge professor whilst fending off the romantic overtures of an interfering local reporter. An escalating cat-and-mouse game develops between the police and a murderer who cannot control his impulses. It leads to a dramatic and humourous denouement in Berlin. This is a classic English murder mystery ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Nations Fight

    Past and Future Motives for War

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing, and revenge. Using an original data set, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Uninhibited Flying Object

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    A priapic president, a Louis Lane wannabe, CIA assassins, and a baseball-loving alien reveal the inner history of the Cold War ... Read more

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  • Between Peace and War

    40th Anniversary Revised Edition

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an updated edition of the now-classic original of the same title. It has three new substantial chapters: a prologue, a chapter on new evidence on World War I, and an epilogue. The updated edition contains the now-famous typology of international crisis, the original critique of deterrence, the emphasis on agency, and the turn to political psychology to explain sharp departures from ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Wars and Pandemics

    History, Lessons, and Analogies

    by Richard Ned Lebow, Feng Zhang ...
    History, Analogies, Lessons: Wars and Pandemics develops a set of propositions about why policy elites learn some kinds of lessons and not others, why some lessons become deeply embedded, how they influence thinking more generally when they do, and why and how they lose traction. Lebow and Zhang evaluate their propositions in two foreign policy and two public health cases: the Munich lesson for ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Quest for Knowledge in International Relations

    How Do We Know?

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    What do we mean by theory in international relations? What kinds of knowledge do theories seek? How do they stipulate it is found? How should we evaluate any resulting knowledge claims? What do answers to these questions tell us about the theory project in IR, and in the social sciences more generally? Lebow explores these questions in a critical evaluation of the positivist and interpretivist ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Why Nations Still Fight

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Drawing on an original data set of interventions and wars from 1945 to the current day, as well as numerous short case studies, Richard Ned Lebow offers a novel account of their origins and outcomes – one that emphasises miscalculation, failure to conduct meaningful risk assessments, and cultural and political arrogance. In a successive work to Why Nations Fight (2010), he explains why initiators ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Murder at the Monastery

    Inspector Khan Mysteries, #2

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Series Book 2 - Inspector Khan Mysteries
    In the Tuscan monastery of Celle, Brother Matteo enters St. Francis's former cell to discover a body wearing a monk's cloak hunched over a prayer stand with a knife in his back. In London, Howard Fitzjohn, a retired banker is almost murdered on the steps of the Atheneum club by a poisoned dart. He flees the country, seeking refuge in Celle. The events, are part of complicated yarn of international ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Murder at the Met

    Inspector Khan Mysteries, #3

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Series Book 3 - Inspector Khan Mysteries
    Murder at the Met is about misogyny in the British police. It opens with the killing of a newly appointed police commissioner at a training course in Great Windsor Lodge. The forty-two detectives present are all suspects. Then a young woman in Cambridge dies from an overdose of a date rape drug. The two investigations come together in an escalating spiral of encounters that pit detectives against ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!

    A World Without World War I

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! presents an intellectually invigorating set of hypotheticals about the twentieth century--had we been smart enough to avoid World War I.The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. More than one hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Politics and Ethics of Identity

    In Search of Ourselves

    by Richard Ned Lebow ...
    We are multiple, fragmented, and changing selves who, nevertheless, believe we have unique and consistent identities. What accounts for this illusion? Why has the problem of identity become so central in post-war scholarship, fiction, and the media? Following Hegel, Richard Ned Lebow contends that the defining psychological feature of modernity is the tension between our reflexive and social ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Justice and International Order

    East and West

    by Richard Ned Lebow, Feng Zhang ...
    A comparative exploration of Western and Chinese understandings of justice and their possible use to reframe Sino-American relations and international governance. The concept of justice is central to politics: it justifies the ordering of society and the distribution of rewards. In Justice and International Order, Richard Ned Lebow and Feng Zhang compare and contrast Western and Chinese ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD