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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... organized. The wars of decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s are examples of the former. Even that mainstay of 'realist' thought and practice, 'sovereignty', is not a neutral term, it holds within it a host of moral imperatives – the ...
... organized political bureaucracy with some efficiency in running the state machinery; [and third an] adhere[nce] to generally accepted international law; [fourth] fulfill[ment] of the obligations of the international system [in diplomacy] ...
... organizations); their relative status vis-à-vis each other; the distribution of population and territories among them and; '[t]he various kinds of institutions or organizations that actors may share among them'.49 These principles are ...
... organization would lead to the end of war. As Thomas Paine said, until '[m]onarchical sovereignty, the enemy of mankind and source of misery, is abolished and sovereignty is restored to its natural and original place, the nation' there ...
... organizational structure based on class, above the state and ultimately undermining it. As Francis Wheen points out however, Marx himself recognized the revolutionary power of liberal thought to the point where the Manifesto has been ...
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 | |