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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... claim a cultural dominance the like of which the world has never seen before? These players are the liberal democracies of the West. In the last 15 years or so liberal democracies have become obsessed with the idea of trying to create a ...
... claiming that the United States was 'chosen' by God to spread this 'freedom', Lloyd George was stating what has become almost a 'law' of international relations – democracies do not go to war with each other – not an exclusive concept ...
... claim that the United States, the twentieth century's great liberal power, could be suspected of imperial ambition when its urge was so clearly to liberate? The tone of the above sentences is clearly ironic, but much of the outrage is ...
... that underpin our liberal world order, for that is surely what we have, of the current leaders who claim to speak for us all and they are mainly based in Washington DC. Sources Apart from the writings of a number of precursor academic.
... claims that liberalism is a force for good in the world.21 Gramscian Marxists like Gill and Cox would also point to the links between this economic and political networking for the emergence of an 'intellectual' hegemony.22 That remains ...
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 | |