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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... democracy and free markets'.7 Wilson himself was as free with the use of the word 'freedom' as have been all American Presidents, a classic example being his declaration during the Presidential campaign of 1912 that 'I believe that God ...
... Democratic and Republican Administrations since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. However, the basic ... democracy', that view was now untenable. Now, says Berman, 'we were facing a totalitarian menace – something akin to ...
... democratic peace',15 one guaranteed because all the parties to it are democratic liberal states, so that we might see not just a cessation of hostilities but 'an end to all hostilities' and the end 'of all existing reasons for a future ...
... democratic societies a far greater moral case for war has to be made. Even in August 1939 Chamberlain had real problems persuading the British that the continuous affronts to freedom by the Nazis could not be tolerated after they took ...
... democratic practices and ideals. This 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 ...
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 | |