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100 1 _aLebow, Richard Ned.
245 1 0 _aForbidden Fruit :
_bCounterfactuals and International Relations.
264 1 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c2010.
264 4 _c©2010.
300 _a1 online resource (345 pages)
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505 0 _aCover -- 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 -- Appendix: Experiment 4, Instrument 1: Unmaking American Tragedies -- CHAPTER SEVEN: If Mozart Had Died at Your Age: Psycho-logic versus Statistical Inference -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Heil to the Chief: Sinclair Lewis, Philip Roth, and Fascism -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520 _aCould 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCold War.
650 0 _aCounterfactuals (Logic).
650 0 _aImaginary histories.
650 0 _aInternational relations -- Research.
650 0 _aWorld politics -- Research.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aLebow, Richard Ned Ned.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aLebow, Richard Ned
_tForbidden Fruit : Counterfactuals and International Relations
_dPrinceton : Princeton University Press,c2010
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797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=483562
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