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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... largely evaporated. Because the benefits of liberalism so often seem self-evident to liberals, they are prone to ignore their own internal disagreements and the dilemmas and contradictions that have always existed at the heart of ...
... should respond once they have defeated the challenges of the illiberal states through war or persuasion (which they have largely succeeded in doing) and trying to prevent their reoccurrence. For what distinguishes liberal states from.
... as 'just and lasting peace' after war? It is thus in the tradition of the early fathers of the discipline, as it is liberal in inspiration, universalist in aspiration and holds within it a belief that some sort of largely peaceful.
... largely peaceful international society is not only possible but is in existence in parts of the world, if by no means everywhere. However it is also assumed that we have to be very self-critical in our assumptions about liberal values ...
... largely as part of an Anglo–American progression. In many ways non-Anglo–Americans have always felt excluded from the resulting discourse. Those hostile to this, many of them 'critical' theorists or even Marxists, would generally see ...
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 | |