Robert J Lieber
Biographic Data
| ID | 951456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Lieber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lieber |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBER R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Theory and World Politics
Originally published in 1973, Theory and World Politics provides a penetrating and lucid treatment of the possibilities and applications of the important contemporary approaches to international relations at the time. The essays aim at developing a more reliable and systematic understanding of the subject, and they are presented in such a way that the reader does not become lost in a maze of social-scientific jargon. Professor Lieber very aptly r…
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World
Indispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent World
The Rise of the BRICS and American primacy
Security vs. Privacy in an Era of Terror and Technology
Striking a balance between security and privacy or liberty is a problem as old as the American republic itself. Since the time of the founding, the balance between these two ideals has oscillated among political elites within and outside government, in the interplay among Congress, the judiciary, and the executive branch, and in the back and forth between government and the public
Staying Power and the American Future: Problems of Primacy, Policy, and Grand Strategy
Many scholars, strategists and pundits contend that the US is in decline. They argue that America's national capabilities are significantly eroding, and that with the rise of important regional powers, its primacy in world affairs is rapidly diminishing as well. Yet America continues to possess significant advantages in critical sectors such as economic size, technology, competitiveness, demography, force size, power projection, military technolo…
American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century
The American Era makes a provocative argument about America's world role. It sets out the case for a grand strategy that recognizes American preponderance as necessary and desirable for coping with the perils of the post-9/11 world. The book argues firstly that, Militant Islamic terrorism and weapons of mass destruction pose a threat which requires us to alter the way we think about the pre-emptive and preventive use of force. Secondly, the UN an…
Persistent primacy and the future of the American era
Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro
Journal Article Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror by Ian Shapiro Get access Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terrorby Ian Shapiro. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2007. 208pp. $24.95. Robert J. Lieber Robert J. Lieber Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 1, Spring 2008, Pages 159–161, https://…
Sifting and Winnowing: The Uses and Abuses of Academic Freedom
Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found. (University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1894)1 The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition... Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and resea…
William V. O'Brien
William V. O'Brien, Professor of Government Emeritus at Georgetown University, died on July 8, 2003, at his home in Washington of head injuries suffered in a fall
Iraq in a Box
Globalization, Culture, and Identities in Crisis
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Journal Article The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Get access The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 448 pp. $27.95. Robert J. Lieber Robert J. Lieber Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/798192 Published: 15 February 2013
U.S. Global Hegemony a Reality Unlikely to Fade
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No transatlantic divorce in the offing
The US‐Israeli relationship after 50 years
Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century
I. INTRODUCTION: THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT. 1. Eagle Without A Cause: Making Foreign Policy Without the Soviet Threat, Robert J. Lieber. 2. The New Isolationism, William Schneider. 3. Who, Why, What, and How: Debates Over Post-Cold War Military Intervention, Bruce W. Jentleson. II. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEMS. 4. 'Return to Normalcy'? Global Economic Policy at the End of the Century, Benjamin J. Cohen. 5. Competing U.S. Grand Strategies, Barry R. Posen, Andre…
American hegemony, regional security and proliferation in the post‐cold war international system
Existential Realism After the Cold War
Oil and Power after the Gulf War
Eagle Revisited: A Reconsideration of the Reagan Era in U.S. Foreign Policy
The Oil Decade: Conflict and Cooperation in the West
Nuclear Winter and the Future of Deterrence
Nuclear Winter
Globalization, Culture, and Identities in Crisis
Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century
I. INTRODUCTION: THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT. 1. Eagle Without A Cause: Making Foreign Policy Without the Soviet Threat, Robert J. Lieber. 2. The New Isolationism, William Schneider. 3. Who, Why, What, and How: Debates Over Post-Cold War Military Intervention, Bruce W. Jentleson. II. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEMS. 4. 'Return to Normalcy'? Global Economic Policy at the End of the Century, Benjamin J. Cohen. 5. Competing U.S. Grand Strategies, Barry R. Posen, Andre…
The Rise of the BRICS and American primacy
Personal Whim or Strategic Imperative: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Oil and Power after the Gulf War
Games Nations Play: Analyzing International Politics
Interest Groups and Political Integration: British Entry into Europe
This article analyzes the influence of interest groups in the formation of British policy toward participation in European unity From the important theoretical literature bearing on the subject, it derives and tests two hypotheses relating group behavior to the political integration process. The hypothesis imputed to the group politics approach holds that if interest groups influence policy formation, then progress toward integration is likely to…
Staying Power and the American Future: Problems of Primacy, Policy, and Grand Strategy
Many scholars, strategists and pundits contend that the US is in decline. They argue that America's national capabilities are significantly eroding, and that with the rise of important regional powers, its primacy in world affairs is rapidly diminishing as well. Yet America continues to possess significant advantages in critical sectors such as economic size, technology, competitiveness, demography, force size, power projection, military technolo…
Energy, Economics and Security in Alliance Perspective
Persistent primacy and the future of the American era
Sifting and Winnowing: The Uses and Abuses of Academic Freedom
Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found. (University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1894)1 The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition... Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and resea…
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Journal Article The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Get access The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. Mearsheimer. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. 448 pp. $27.95. Robert J. Lieber Robert J. Lieber Georgetown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 321–322, https://doi.org/10.2307/798192 Published: 15 February 2013
Existential Realism After the Cold War
Nuclear Winter and the Future of Deterrence
Nuclear Winter
Reagan and the Middle East
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAvner Yaniv Avner Yaniv is director of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Haifa University, Israel. In 1982–83 he was visiting professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. Currently he is preparing a book entitled, David or Goliath? The Making of Israel's National Security Policy. Robert J. Lieber Robert J. Lieber is professor of government, Georgetown University. His latest bo…
Europe and America in the World Energy Crisis
This article, which should be read in conjunction with the preceding one by the Saudi Minister for Finance and National Economy, examines the response of the Western oil consuming countries to the world energy problem
European Elite Attitudes Revisited: The Future of the European Community and European-American Relations
I don’t give a s— about the lira.‘These, as well as comparable sentiments about the pound sterling expressed by a recent U.S. President and preserved on tape for posterity, may symbolize a growing American lack of interest in Western Europe. In turn, European views of the United States may now be less exalted than at any time in the past three decades. In a period when misunderstandings, apocalyptic visions and contradictory judgements abound reg…
The French Nuclear Forge
Journal Article The French Nuclear Forge: A Strategic and Political Evaluation Get access Robert J. Lieber Robert J. Lieber Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 42, Issue 3, July 1966, Pages 421–431, https://doi.org/10.2307/2612181 Published: 01 July 1966
British Politics and European Unity: Parties, Elites and Pressure Groups
Interest Groups and Political Integration: British Entry into Europe
This article analyzes the influence of interest groups in the formation of British policy toward participation in European unity From the important theoretical literature bearing on the subject, it derives and tests two hypotheses relating group behavior to the political integration process. The hypothesis imputed to the group politics approach holds that if interest groups influence policy formation, then progress toward integration is likely to…
Games Nations Play: Analyzing International Politics
European Elite Attitudes Revisited: The Future of the European Community and European-American Relations
I don’t give a s— about the lira.‘These, as well as comparable sentiments about the pound sterling expressed by a recent U.S. President and preserved on tape for posterity, may symbolize a growing American lack of interest in Western Europe. In turn, European views of the United States may now be less exalted than at any time in the past three decades. In a period when misunderstandings, apocalyptic visions and contradictory judgements abound reg…
Energy, Security and Foreign Policy: A Review Essay
In the three years since the oil embargo of 1973-1974 even casual newspaper readers have become aware that there are links between energy, security and foreign policy. Despite the fact that access to resources, especially fossil fuels, has become an integral part of any security equation for industrial countries, their energy policies remain fragmented and subject to the vagaries of domestic politics as well as the pressures of foreign policy. Th…
The Pendulum Swings to Europe
Oil and the Middle East War: Europe in the Energy Crisis
A Foreign Policy for America: A Review Essay
Europe and America in the World Energy Crisis
This article, which should be read in conjunction with the preceding one by the Saudi Minister for Finance and National Economy, examines the response of the Western oil consuming countries to the world energy problem
Energy, Economics and Security in Alliance Perspective
Reagan and the Middle East
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAvner Yaniv Avner Yaniv is director of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Haifa University, Israel. In 1982–83 he was visiting professor in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. Currently he is preparing a book entitled, David or Goliath? The Making of Israel's National Security Policy. Robert J. Lieber Robert J. Lieber is professor of government, Georgetown University. His latest bo…
Personal Whim or Strategic Imperative: The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Nuclear Winter
The Oil Decade: Conflict and Cooperation in the West
Nuclear Winter and the Future of Deterrence
Eagle Revisited: A Reconsideration of the Reagan Era in U.S. Foreign Policy
Oil and Power after the Gulf War
Existential Realism After the Cold War
American hegemony, regional security and proliferation in the post‐cold war international system
Eagle Adrift: American Foreign Policy at the End of the Century
I. INTRODUCTION: THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT. 1. Eagle Without A Cause: Making Foreign Policy Without the Soviet Threat, Robert J. Lieber. 2. The New Isolationism, William Schneider. 3. Who, Why, What, and How: Debates Over Post-Cold War Military Intervention, Bruce W. Jentleson. II. FUNCTIONAL PROBLEMS. 4. 'Return to Normalcy'? Global Economic Policy at the End of the Century, Benjamin J. Cohen. 5. Competing U.S. Grand Strategies, Barry R. Posen, Andre…
The US‐Israeli relationship after 50 years
U.S. Global Hegemony a Reality Unlikely to Fade
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
No transatlantic divorce in the offing
Globalization, Culture, and Identities in Crisis
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