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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... democracies, 80 years or so later the number was just over 100. Other (American) speakers, all with Establishment backgrounds, stressed that the Second World War had created democracy, peace and prosperity in Europe at the end of a long ...
... democracies of the West. In the last 15 years or so liberal democracies have become obsessed with the idea of trying to create a 'stable peace',6 one that briefly looked possible after the end of the Cold War. The events after the ...
... democracy and free markets'.7 Wilson himself was as free with the use of the word 'freedom' as have been all ... democracies do not go to war with each other – not an exclusive concept. Wilson's theological certainty and that of many of ...
... democracy', that view was now untenable. Now, says Berman, 'we were facing a totalitarian menace – something akin to fascism ... the entire situation has the look of Europe in 1939, updated to the post-Cold War Middle East'. So '[s] ...
... democracies found it increasingly necessary to take public opinion with them, as the nature and timing of American involvement in two World Wars can be said to show or Tony Blair's insistence on the 'moral' case for attacking Iraq 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 | |