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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... of International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury and Visiting Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of the Université de Lille II, France. The New International Relations Edited by Barry Buzan London School.
... France hated it so, why was Tsarist Russia and other would-be colonial powers so seemingly ignorant of the benefits that the British Empire was bringing to the peoples of Africa and much of South Asia and elsewhere? Many nineteenth ...
... France where such movements were almost exclusively on the Left, it was probably easier to take a 'middle position between submissiveness and Realpolitik', as pacificists did in Britain or the USA, when the threat of an expansionist ...
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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 | |