Liberalism and War: The Victors and the VanquishedRoutledge, 2013 M04 3 - 276 pages Military power is now the main vehicle for regime change. The US army has been used on more than 30 different occasions in the post-Cold War world compared with just 10 during the whole of the Cold War era. Leading scholar Andrew Williams tackles contemporary thinking on war with a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, using a vast range of historical archival material from diplomatic, other official and personal papers, which this study situates within the debates that have emerged in political theory. He examines the main strategies used at the end, and in the aftermath, of wars by liberal states to consolidate their liberal gains and to prevent the re-occurrence of wars with those states they have fought. This new study also explores how various strategies: revenge; restitution; reparation; restraint; retribution; reconciliation; and reconstruction, have been used by liberal states not only to defeat their enemies but also transform them. This is a major new contribution to contemporary thinking and action. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of politics, international relations and security studies. |
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... Britain and its Empire to the United States, a process that has rightly been dubbed the 'Special Relationship', even if it is now quite clear who is the dominant partner.12 This Wilsonian desire to change the world in America's ...
... Britain's case, since the Boer War. Of course this is not the first time that liberal states have felt under attack and have had to correspondingly look to both their defences but also to examine their underlying belief systems. In the ...
... Britain, now it is the United States. So the Conclusion will try and assess to what extent we can count on the good sense and understanding of the values and norms that underpin our liberal world order, for that is surely what we have ...
... Britain. This I do not believe needs defending as the sources of foreign policy thinking have always originated in such source material. However, the discussion of IR theory and practice has to take into account Brown's assertion that ...
... Britain in particular, these have proliferated since 1919 as a response to what Woodrow Wilson called the 'apotheosis of public opinion'. Alas they are largely untapped sources about liberal thinking in IR, except by historians, much of ...
Contents
Twentiethcentury liberalism and thinking about war and peace 1918 to | |
Reparations | |
Reconstruction until the Marshall Plan | |
Reconstruction after the Marshall Plan | |
Retribution the logics of justice and peace | |
Restorative justice reconciliation and resolution | |
Conclusion Do liberal dilemmas disable all liberal solutions to war? | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |