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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... Cold War world compared with just ten during the whole of the Cold War era. Andrew Williams provides a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, using a vast range of historical archival ...
... Jörg Friedrichs The Post-Cold War International System Strategies, Institutions and Reflexivity Ewan Harrison States of Political Discourse Words, Regimes, Seditions Costas M. Constantinou The Politics of Regional Identity Meddling with.
... Cold War there was a tendency to forget that the emergence of liberal thought is still a relatively recent phenomenon and that it is very likely that liberalism can only flourish under favourable conditions. As a consequence, the ...
... Cold War era, there are no easy answers to these questions. Moreover, in many ways, the questions become especially difficult to handle when liberalism is operating so clearly from a position of strength. Many liberals have been deeply ...
... Cold War have taught us anything in the study of international relations one lesson must be that ideas really do matter in the elaboration of policy by powerful states. As A. C. Grayling put it succinctly, 'our understanding of the ...
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 | |