As shown by its dedication (To all those who transgress disciplinary boundaries and recognize the need to embed our understanding of international relations in a wider cultural and historical context'), Lebow's most recent book is animated by the same inspiration as his A Cultural Theory of International Relations. This time, his attempt to show the limits of theory takes the form of a very methodical presentation of the technique of counterfactuals: that is, of imagined alternative historical developments provoked by a given imaginary event, such as a defeat instead of a military victory, the death of a protagonist, or the survival of another.
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