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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... especially difficult to handle when liberalism is operating so 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 ...
... especially those at the National Archives in Kew, London, the Archives Nationales in Paris, the Library of Congress, and the Seeley Mudd Library at Princeton. Thanks also to the staff of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ...
... especially in the last hundred years. Usually that was with reluctance and after much soul-searching. In the nineteenth century the leader of that century's great liberal state, Lord Palmerston, was able to say that 'we have no eternal ...
... especially for the liberal leaders of the 'West'; how they have been successful or not in preventing future wars; and how they have interacted (or not) with each other. The method used will be those of the historian of ideas and of the ...
... especially give that publishers have a necessary desire to keep word limits down. I have had to suggest which cases to concentrate on, which literature to privilege, which testimony to privilege. This is a book written with 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 | |