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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... political order of differences in moral worth among human beings; universalist, affirming the moral unity of the human species and according secondary importance to specific historical associations and cultural forms; and meliorist.
The Victors and the Vanquished Andrew Williams. importance to specific historical associations and cultural forms; and ... important because it has often been said that it was the shift from the pursuit of religious unity (by definition ...
... importance of 'context'. Freedom is not without its limits.37 Although it would be invidious to draw too many ahistorical lessons from Locke, we can still try and draw out what was significant for us as the revolutionary nature of ...
... importance, he had little to say about international politics in the sense that we understand it now. It is arguable that his main contribution was to engage in the colonial debates of his day, where he attempted to justify British ...
... important one not only as a work of political theory, but also as 'a convincing answer to the problem of war [without which] the rest of his moral and political philosophy turns to ashes'44. The problem was its inaccessibility to 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 | |