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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... 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 threat posed by terrorism. At the same time, the decision in 2003 to ...
... clear. Wars had to be succeeded by reconstruction, as they had in 1945 and in the 1990s with the old Eastern Bloc. A member of the ultraliberal American Enterprise Institute put it even more succinctly: 'America's revenge' was 'to turn ...
... on the United States' mainland in 2001. But clearly there are strong historical precedents for the kind of thinking being used by the President and his advisors. Is what we are now seeing in the Middle East and elsewhere the apotheosis of.
... clear who is the dominant partner.12 This Wilsonian desire to change the world in America's democratic liberal image has had its most recent proof in the actions of both Democratic and Republican Administrations since the end of the ...
... clearly to liberate? The tone of the above sentences is clearly ironic, but much of the outrage is not. The issues this book seeks to elucidate are related to how liberal states feel they should respond once they have defeated 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 | |