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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... intervention even against those states that were deeply abhorred by British liberal opinion were (generally) left alone. But also in the last hundred years the 'Victors' have increasingly been liberal states themselves. They have used ...
... intervention, Michael Mandelbaum talking of the '[Wilsonian] ideas that conquered the world; peace, democracy and free markets'.7 Wilson himself was as free with the use of the word 'freedom' as have been all American Presidents, a ...
... intervention was then, and for many liberals is still, the norm. So what we have seen since 1989 is the emergence of a much more militant strain of liberal interventionism, one that sits in uneasy relation to older forms, as is ...
... intervention in the affairs of other states for humanitarian reasons as a norm, not an exception? If so, why is this?4 To this we might add that there has been an increasing conflation of the idea that the 'international community ...
... profound effects on not just 'realist' thought but also on liberal thought, as in the discussion about 'humanitarian intervention', very popular since the end of the Cold War. So this chapter and the next will therefore attempt 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 | |