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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... emergence of liberal thought is still a relatively recent phenomenon and that it is very likely that liberalism can only flourish under favourable conditions. As a consequence, the triumphalism that prevailed in the wake of the Cold War ...
... emergence of a much more militant strain of liberal interventionism, one that sits in uneasy relation to older forms, as is evidenced by Prime Minister Tony Blair's (essentially liberal) Cabinet being split down the middle about how to ...
... emergence of what I deem to be areas of reflection and action in dealing with wars and their aftermath. This is somewhat in contrast to the very 'evenémentiel' approach of the last book, which attempted a fusion of diplomatic history ...
... emergence of a 'transnational', or even an 'Anglo–American class', one based on shared capitalist aspirations that has, in the words of Inderjeet Parmar, 'develop[ed] international networks – social, economic, ideological and begins the ...
... emergence as a coherent philosophical and practical position, liberalism has gone through a bewildering number of debates and broadly speaking polarized into what has come to be known as (for example) the 'liberal–communitarian' debate ...
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 | |