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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... questions. Moreover, in many ways, the questions become especially difficult to handle when liberalism is operating so clearly from a position of strength. Many liberals have been deeply shocked by the insistence that civil liberties ...
... questions. As has become customary I would also like to give thanks to Chris and Lois Mitchell and Judy and Neil Garrecht-Williams, who have always extended me a warm welcome in Washington DC and New York respectively. I would in ...
... question for us has to be why we need to think about this at this particular moment? This has been explained by Chris Brown as follows: first, there has been much more concern about 'Real World Events' since the 1970s – and wars in ...
... questions are in play here. As a good empiricist I can accept the notion of 'schools of thought', or even 'paradigms' but with the proviso that we must avoid too strict a demarcation. Most, if not all 'isms' have been described by ...
... question was how you can act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a 'means, but always at the same time as an end', so we are all 'law mak[ers] of a ...
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 | |