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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... possible for Williams to offer a more nuanced and balanced assessment. The intention is not to provide a comprehensive chronological account of peace making in the twentieth century. Rather the aim is to select appropriate case studies ...
... possible after the end of the Cold War. The events after the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the second war on Iraq in 2003, the constant fear of attacks by Muslim ...
... possible and is reflected in the Charter of the United Nations and many other pious declarations, a discussion of which will be developed in Chapter 3.14 It will be argued in this book that these 'leanings' are in part at least an ...
... 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, to acknowledge that they are open to accusations of ...
... possible for all members of any society to benefit from this as individuals. Linked to this is a belief in 'progress', which as Bellamy points out, has 'theological foundations'.13 The word 'theological' is important because it has ...
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 | |