03853nam 2200733Ia 450 991081956160332120200520144314.01-282-45814-01-282-93627-1978661293627297866124581491-4008-3512-710.1515/9781400835126(CKB)2520000000006993(EBL)483562(OCoLC)647874719(SSID)ssj0000458049(PQKBManifestationID)11283208(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458049(PQKBWorkID)10438457(PQKB)10250445(DE-B1597)446908(OCoLC)979579415(DE-B1597)9781400835126(MiAaPQ)EBC483562(MiAaPQ)EBC4968587(Au-PeEL)EBL4968587(CaONFJC)MIL245814(OCoLC)741250583(EXLCZ)99252000000000699320090504d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrForbidden fruit counterfactuals and international relations /Richard Ned LebowCourse BookPrinceton Princeton University Pressc20101 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13290-9 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER ONE. Making Sense of the World -- CHAPTER TWO. Counterfactual Thought Experiments -- PART TWO -- Chapter Three. Franz Ferdinand Found Alive: World War I Unnecessary -- Chapter Four. Leadership and the End of the Cold War: Did It Have to End This Way? -- PART THREE -- CHAPTER FIVE. Scholars and Causation 1 -- CHAPTER SIX. Scholars and Causation 2 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Heil to the Chief: Sinclair Lewis, Philip Roth, and Fascism -- Conclusions -- Notes -- IndexCould 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 Forbidden Fruit, 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, Forbidden Fruit also examines the binary between fact and fiction and the use of counterfactuals in fictional works like Philip Roth's The Plot Against America to understand complex causation and its implications for who we are and what we think makes the social world work.International relationsResearchWorld politicsResearchCold WarImaginary historiesCounterfactuals (Logic)International relationsResearch.World politicsResearch.Cold War.Imaginary histories.Counterfactuals (Logic)327.1072Lebow Richard Ned308100MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819561603321Forbidden Fruit2637524UNINA