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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... global system where liberal norms and practices dominate and not those of the 'realist' jungle, will depend on the thinking and practice of the dominant liberal state(s) of the day. In 1900 this was Great Britain, now it is the United ...
... global civil society, one based on liberal ideas, is the key focus of this book but also of much thinking in IR in general. All IR theory and indeed much of liberal, realist or whatever thought it might be argued, is about how to create ...
... global hegemony, there was no need to talk about 'ethics' in foreign policy or to justify the expansion of Western military and other forms of power. That was self-defence. Now there is a clear need to consolidate the victory of the ...
... global politics and one that has been repeatedly exported by force since 1917 at least. We also see it in the notion of 'humanitarian intervention' one that will be further explored in the next chapter. At what point is the 'moral ...
... global international system; on their role in modelling this system and then changing it. 'Liberal Internationalism' (LI) has become the catch-all phrase to describe liberal thinking about war and peace. The expression first came to ...
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 | |