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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... Wilson as well as the entire Williams family – Jane, Nicholas and Rebecca – who were often used as sounding boards for my more outlandish ideas. My apologies to those I have omitted to thank. I would also like to thank the archivists ...
... Wilson of the United States. Wilson was part of a tradition of American liberalism that has flourished in the twentieth century as that country has emerged from its nineteenth century isolation to become the greatest power on Earth ...
... Wilson called the 'apotheosis of public opinion'. Alas they are largely untapped sources about liberal thinking in IR, except by historians, much of whose writing is not on IR reading lists. Fourth, we must not forget the lineage that ...
... Wilson and nearly all American and British liberals. So another key contradiction can be found in the notion of the 'New World Order', a liberal perspective on global politics and one that has been repeatedly exported by force since ...
... Wilson or Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cases, or Monarchs, as with Tom Paine, were anathema. The United States and Britain had a long-standing difference of opinion about the 'benevolence' of the British Empire but it was rarely seen in ...
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 | |