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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... debates that have emerged in recent 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 ...
... debate. Of course, it would be encouraging if it could be shown that policy makers have learned from the past and that the quality of decision making is steadily improving. In practice, such optimism rests on a false assumption, because ...
... debates but also in the historical experiences of an increasingly self-confident 'West' faced with a series of what have been seen as illiberal enemies. Another key contention is that there is another, possibly 'purer', liberal impulse ...
... debate about how to emphasize or de-emphasize how these actors and processes described have interacted with each other over the last century. The choices that I have made in what needs to be highlighted and what can be left unsaid are ...
... debate, about what 'ought' to be and what 'is'. The defence of liberal values and the creation of what many see as a global civil society, one based on liberal ideas, is the key focus of this book but also of much thinking in IR in ...
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 | |