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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... Iraq, either to protect liberalism in the west or to promote liberalism in Iraq, is considered by many liberals in the West to be both immoral and illegal. The criticisms would, no doubt, have been made, whatever the circumstances, but ...
... Iraq since 2003. For liberal states, so long on the back foot in their dealings with illiberal aggressors, have now taken the offensive in what is often referred to as 'preemptive' mode. The President of the greatest liberal state the ...
... Iraq. The 'unfinished business' of 1991 now needed to be finished and the liberal coalition 'against terror', mainly the United States and its faithful ally the UK, would be at the forefront of this. Another speaker made the analogy of ...
... Iraq in 2003, the constant fear of attacks by Muslim Fundamentalist groups and the ensuing security measures in all liberal democracies have all contributed to a feeling that liberal states and communities of states have to protect ...
... Iraq of 1991 'will not be a war about democracy', that view was now untenable. Now, says Berman, 'we were facing a ... Iraq of 2003. Many American liberals feel uneasy about the war in Iraq, but they are also on the whole in favour 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 | |