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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... believe that they can bring about an 'end' to war by the spreading of liberal ideas and practices to those countries that do not yet recognize them as a blueprint for thought and action in international and domestic politics. There have ...
... believe that God has planted in us visions of liberty ... that we are chosen and prominently chosen to show the way to the nations of the world how they shall walk in the paths of liberty.'8 British Prime Minister David Lloyd George was ...
... believe quite sincerely in the creation of a better world and that they are exemplars of what that world should look like. In this, 'neoconservatives' bear more than a family resemblance to Wilsonian liberals. Even if they are obviously ...
... believe needs defending as the sources of foreign policy thinking have always originated in such source material. However, the discussion of IR theory and practice has to take into account Brown's assertion that this was developed ...
... believe in what is usually termed a 'communitarian' view of rights, versus a 'cosmopolitan' view that everyone has rights and good liberals elsewhere should therefore defend them. This latter view has coloured recent reflection on the ...
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 | |