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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... governments they deserve'. Non-intervention was then, and for many liberals is still, the norm. So what we have seen since 1989 is the emergence of a much more militant strain of liberal interventionism, one that sits in uneasy relation ...
... governments before and during the Second World War saw the failure of the Treaty of Versailles summed up in this failed policy, one that was in any case reversed by a resurgent Germany in a way that humiliated the Victors of 1919. The ...
... governments with a profound respect for individual liberty will exercise 'restraint' and have 'peaceful intentions' in their foreign policy.21 Liberals believe that the application of the basic tenets of the credo to the practice of ...
... governments, are necessarily pacifist. As Gilbert Murray, the famous early twentieth-century liberal, put it: I start from the profound conviction that what the world needs is peace. There has been too much war and too much of too many ...
... government must be instituted and the inhabitants of such a state will 'consent to civil society, a commonwealth'. Where good government is not instituted or maintained, rebellion becomes acceptable.36 Theodore Menand has pointed out ...
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 | |