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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... looks not so much overly optimistic as naive. Hopes of operating in a new era characterized by peaceful change waned as western countries have either had to watch from the sidelines both new and unexpected bouts of conflict and the ...
... look at the past use and abuse of liberal impulses over the past 100 years. The quote from John Charmley at the head of this chapter – 'liberalism [might] be regarded as a conspiracy of the intellect against human nature: a true triumph ...
... look of Europe in 1939, updated to the post-Cold War Middle East'. So '[s]houldn't the Arab world be as forward thinking as other parts of the world? Are Western freedoms only for Westerners? (No one thinks that Middle Eastern oil is ...
... look to both their defences but also to examine their underlying belief systems. In the twentieth century, in 1914, in 1939 (and many times in the intervening years), during the Cold War and since, there have been a number of occasions ...
... look like. In this, 'neoconservatives' bear more than a family resemblance to Wilsonian liberals. Even if they are obviously not immune from seeking and holding power, they believe that they are doing this for the common good. This is ...
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 | |