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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... British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Williams, Andrew J., 1951Liberalism and war : the victors and the ...
... British liberal opinion were (generally) left alone. But also in the last hundred years the 'Victors' have increasingly been liberal states themselves. They have used war and its aftermath as a means of spreading or confirming an ...
... British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was able to marshal the same word to his cause during the First World War: 'Liberty is the sure guarantee of good will among the peoples of the world. Free nations are not eager to make war.'9 ...
... British liberal imperialists, as will be described in Chapter 1. One of the main features of the past hundred years has been the passing of the flame of the aspiration to liberal leadership of the world from Great Britain and its Empire ...
... British Empire was bringing to the peoples of Africa and much of South Asia and elsewhere? Many nineteenth-century American, German and even British liberals could understand that Britain was in fact self-seeking, but they still found ...
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 | |