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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... western world in the early 1990s following the defeat of Soviet communism has given way at the start of the twenty-first century to an extraordinary level of division and heart-searching. As western liberals have struggled to come to ...
... 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 it is likely that they would have been ...
... West and at the same time to promote liberalism could prove to be profoundly counterproductive. This double move, however, is at least in part a reflection of dilemmas that are inherent within liberalism. But more optimistically ...
... West' faced with a series of what have been seen as illiberal enemies. Another key contention is that there is another, possibly 'purer', liberal impulse that we see in the denunciations of the militant liberalism of the current ...
... West. In the last 15 years or so liberal democracies have become obsessed with the idea of trying to create a 'stable peace',6 one that briefly looked possible after the end of the Cold War. The events after the attacks on the World ...
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 | |