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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... nature: a true triumph of hope over experience. John Charmley1 Liberal states have always sympathized, or on occasion gone to the aid of, those 'vanquished' by illiberal regimes, especially in the last hundred years. Usually that was ...
... nature: a true triumph of hope over experience' was a jibe at President Woodrow Wilson of the United States. Wilson was part of a tradition of American liberalism that has flourished in the twentieth century as that country has emerged ...
... nature and timing of American involvement in two World Wars can be said to show or Tony Blair's insistence on the 'moral' case for attacking Iraq in 2003. Sometimes this is a postfacto moral and public-pleasing formula, like the ...
... nature cannot. Moreover, philosophers like Jacques Derrida assure us that no element of thought or action can be divorced from any other, that they are all part of an evolving 'text'. In Terry Eagleton's words 'no system of meaning can ...
... nature of opposition to war in the twentieth century necessitates an initial distinction between 'pacifism' and 'pacificism' (his italics), the first meaning an outright opposition to participation in war, a perfectionist 'moral creed ...
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 | |