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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... Germany in a way that humiliated the Victors of 1919. The next two chapters, 4 and 5, on 'Reconstruction' show the evolution in parallel and subsequent to the failed reparation option. 'Reconstruction' is still the tool box of choice ...
... Germany manufactured a 'border incident' with Poland in 1939 that 'insulted' German pride and sovereignty. Saddam Hussein had the clear aim in 1990 of 'restoring' Iraqi sovereignty over its '19th Province'. Both were excused on the ...
... Germany, Italy and Japan at least and in each case it was by force of arms.32 Many of these states could be termed 'imperialist' and for many American liberals, Empires, as in Woodrow Wilson or Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cases, or ...
... Germany, Russia and Austria–Hungary. Generally speaking nationalism was thus seen as good thing, but it was assumed that this would lead to the end of autocracy, which was often not the case. Few states had constitutions and fewer still ...
... Germany was in 1914.52 What did happen, in terms of the result for the bourgeoisie and the working class alike, was that the rise of the nation state led to warfare being transferred from being the Sport of Kings to being one 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 | |