Thucydides the Constructivist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4922993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Ned Lebow (0000-0002-1972-141X, The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 547-560 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055401003112 |
| OpenAlex | W4252146564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 32 |
The most superficial level of Thucydides' history examines the destructive consequences of domestic and foreign policies framed outside the language of justice. His deeper political-philosophical aim was to explore the relationship between nomos (convention) and phusis (nature) and its implications for civilization. Thucydides concludes that nomos constructs identities and channels and restrains the behavior of individuals and societies. Speech and reason (logos) in turn make nomos possible because all conventions depend on shared meanings. The feedback loop between logoi (words) and ergoi (deeds) created Greek civilization but also the international and civil strife (stasis) associated with the Peloponnesian War. International security and civil order depend upon recovering the meanings of words and the conventions they enable. Thucydides should properly be considered a constructivist
Aesthetics · Civilization · Convention · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Logos Bible Software · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Law · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
Reason and Cause
Thucydides’ Legacy in Grand Strategy
Aristos Eikastes—Ned Lebow as a ‘Themistoclean’ Classicist
The Killing Trap
The Realist Tradition and the Limits of International Relations
Compelling Justice
Les strates de la philosophie politique de Thucydide selon Leo Strauss
Hegemonia e Impérios Orientais em Heródoto
From Tianxia to Tianxia
Our oil would burn bright til morning
Critical Security in the Twenty-First Century
Interlocuting classical realism and critical theory
Realist-Constructivism and Morality
Power in Realist-Constructivist Research
Theory of Irrational Politics
The Role of Self-Fulfilling and Self-Negating Prophecies in International Relations
Realist Constructivism and Realist-Constructivisms
Varieties of Social Construction
Constructive Realism
Constructivist Realism or Realist-Constructivism
Prestige in world politics
The Egyptian Revolution and the Politics of Histories
Dilemmas of Security in Iraq
Gilbert Murray and International Relations
Nietzsche on Thucydidean Realism
Realist Constructivism
Discourses on Salt and Iron
Did Thucydides Believe in Thucydides’ Trap? The History of the Peloponnesian War and Its Relevance to U.S.-China Relations
International Institutions and Socialization in Europe
Human Migration and the Conceptualization of Pre-Modern World Politics
Thucydides's Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat
Thucydides on Ripeness and Conflict Resolution
Thucydides and Modern Realism
Why Ideas Matter in International Relations
Realism, Narrative, and Happenstance
Thucydides and the Science of History
The origins of the Peloponnesian War
The Greek and Macedonian Art of War
A History of Greece
The Greek and Macedonian Art of War
The tragic reading of the Thucydidean tragedy
Moderating power
Ancient Greek Literature and Society
The Greek Historians
The Humanity of Thucydides
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Varieties of Realism
Prospect Theory and International Relations
Loss Aversion, Framing, and Bargaining
Thucydides and Neorealism
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
Thucydides’ critique of realpolitik
Play it Again Pericles
The richness of the tradition of political realism
International organization
The Illusion of Power and the Disruption of Moral Norms
La Construction de la verite chez Thucydide
Thucydides
The Dialectical Logic of Thucydides' Melian Dialogue
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,46 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |