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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... attempts to use force to eliminate security threats to the 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 ...
... attempted a fusion of diplomatic history and the history of ideas.18 This leads in practice to a division of the main themes of the book into areas of action and reflection or what I would term 'mnemonic themes'. Most of these themes ...
... attempt to find 'legalistic' solutions in the aftermath of wars, especially those of 'retribution', primarily through War Crimes Tribunals and 'reconciliation' (also often referred to as 'restorative justice'). Chapter 7 will also make ...
... attempted Soviet claim to global hegemony, there was no need to talk about 'ethics' in foreign policy or to justify the expansion of Western military and other forms of power. That was self-defence. Now there is a clear need to ...
... had profound effects on not just 'realist' thought but also on liberal thought, as in the discussion about 'humanitarian intervention', very popular since the end of the Cold War. So this chapter and the next will therefore attempt to.
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 | |