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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... principles underpinning the United States' political, social and economic system. The 'vanquished' have suddenly become those who previously lived by a creed of dictatorship, extreme Marxism, Communism or other ideology deemed dangerous ...
... principle of 'distributive justice'. There is now a widespread questioning of such questions as 'what obligations do rich states/societies/people have towards poor states/societies/people?'3 Fourth, there has been a persistent split in ...
... principle in both domestic and international life. As Richard Bellamy puts it, the strand that most people associate with liberalism is what he calls 'ethical liberalism' within which most prominent British liberals can be included ...
... principles about how strong states should relate to other peoples. Many of the greatest liberals historically have taken strong stances on both non-intervention and imperialism, as well as about the need for states to co-operate, often ...
... principles will save European society from imminent revolution and collapse. He had had no problem in supporting the war against Germany, '... of course I supported the war. I believe it was necessary',29 but what he did object to was ...
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 | |