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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... seen has declared open season on 'rogue' states, by which he means those who do not agree with the principles underpinning the United States' political, social and economic system. The 'vanquished' have suddenly become those who ...
... seen as illiberal enemies. Another key contention is that there is another, possibly 'purer', liberal impulse that we see in the denunciations of the militant liberalism of the current American administration, one that downplays the ...
... seen since 1989 is the emergence of a much more militant strain of liberal interventionism, one that sits in uneasy relation to older forms, as is evidenced by Prime Minister Tony Blair's (essentially liberal) Cabinet being split down ...
... seen as having its main roots in a reaction to the horrors of the First World War and as having its roots in the liberal American political science of the nineteenth century, which explains IR's 'Anglo-American leanings', ones which ...
... seen as new phenomenon in its recent 'Truth Commission' phase as seen in South Africa, but a much older idea that is embedded in Christian doctrine and practice, among other world views. The 'R's in this book are all forms of mental ...
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 | |