{"product_id":"forbidden-fruit-counterfactuals-and-international-relations-9780691132907","title":"Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations","description":"\u003cp\u003eCould World War I have been averted if Franz Ferdinand and his wife hadn't been murdered by Serbian nationalists in 1914? What if Ronald Reagan had been killed by Hinckley's bullet? Would the Cold War have ended as it did? In \u003ci\u003eForbidden Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Ned Lebow develops protocols for conducting robust counterfactual thought experiments and uses them to probe the causes and contingency of transformative international developments like World War I and the end of the Cold War. He uses experiments, surveys, and a short story to explore why policymakers, historians, and international relations scholars are so resistant to the contingency and indeterminism inherent in open-ended, nonlinear systems. Most controversially, Lebow argues that the difference between counterfactual and so-called factual arguments is misleading, as both can be evidence-rich and logically persuasive. A must-read for social scientists, \u003ci\u003eForbidden Fruit\u003c\/i\u003e also examines the binary between fact and fiction and the use of counterfactuals in fictional works like Philip Roth's \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America\u003c\/i\u003e to understand complex causation and its implications for who we are and what we think makes the social world work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Ned LeBow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691132907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ned Lebow\u003c\/b\u003e is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and the Centennial Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His many books include \u003ci\u003eA Cultural Theory of International Relations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWe All Lost the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40094040883315,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5fc3d7a1-bc0b-4226-8f3e-c4f814491131.jpg?v=1652883807","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/forbidden-fruit-counterfactuals-and-international-relations-9780691132907","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}