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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... World War had created democracy, peace and prosperity in Europe at the end of a long and terrible war. Such a process of war leading to these desirable ends was now necessary elsewhere, in Iraq. The 'unfinished business' of 1991 now ...
... world how they shall walk in the paths of liberty.'8 British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was able to marshal the same word to his cause during the First World War: 'Liberty is the sure guarantee of good will among the peoples of the ...
... world where statesmen will not see war as the instrument of choice for change. As Chris Brown has written, IR itself can be said to have come out of the pursuit of answers to the prevalence of war and to 'address and promote the ...
... 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 next two chapters, 4 and 5, on ...
... war itself. War aims have no sense unless you have some idea about what you want the post-war situation to look like ... World Wars can be said to show or Tony Blair's insistence on the 'moral' case for attacking Iraq in 2003. Sometimes ...
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 | |