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Still on the Long Road to Theory

University of Bristol

This review endeavours to identify the essential features of Lebow's attempt in A Cultural Theory of International Relations to provide a new grand theory of international relations. Lebow's starting point is that all existing grand theories in the field are fundamentally flawed because they operate on the basis of one-dimensional and oversimplified views of human motivation. He is particularly critical of interest-based theories of international relations, and his aim is to establish a conception of the human psyche that will allow him to introduce a cultural or social dimension to human motivation, and it is on this basis that he then endeavours to generate a cultural theory of international relations.

Key Words: cultural theory • grand theory • human motivation • world history

This version was published on August 1, 2009

Millennium - Journal of International Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1, 107-115 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0305829809335838


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