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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... chapters of this book will look at the past use and abuse of liberal impulses over the past 100 years. The quote from John Charmley at the head of this chapter – 'liberalism [might] be regarded as a conspiracy of the intellect against ...
... Chapter 1. One of the main features of the past hundred years has been the passing of the flame of the aspiration to liberal leadership of the world from Great Britain and its Empire to the United States, a process that has rightly been ...
... Chapter 3.14 It will be argued in this book that these 'leanings' are in part at least an inherent dialogue between 'realist' obsessions with power and interest and 'liberal' yearnings after what Immanuel Kant called 'Perpetual Peace ...
... chapters. The remaining chapters will look at these liberal policy options, the 'R's, in some detail, again using a wide historical perspective. The first of these (Chapter 3) will look at what is widely seen as the 'cautionary tale ...
... chapter and the next aim to show how that liberal agenda has developed ad bellum and, by extension post bellum looking at the evolution of liberal thought and practice in the engaging of, or resistance to, war by liberal states. A ...
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 | |