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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... become actively engaged in war. Even more traumatic, liberals have had to come to terms with the fact that the demise of communism has not eliminated opposition to liberalism. On the contrary, liberals have had to acknowledge that there ...
... become especially difficult to handle when liberalism is operating so clearly from a position of strength. Many liberals have been deeply shocked by the insistence that civil liberties need to be curtailed in order to contend with the ...
... become customary I would also like to give thanks to Chris and Lois Mitchell and Judy and Neil Garrecht-Williams, who have always extended me a warm welcome in Washington DC and New York respectively. I would in particular like to thank ...
... become increasingly self-consciously universal in aspiration and impact. This trend has now arguably reached its highest, or 'lowest', point, depending on your view of the actions taken in Iraq since 2003. For liberal states, so long on ...
... 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 Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the invasion 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 | |