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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... 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 in Washington. The aim of this volume is to show how ...
... social existence, are founded on ideas – usually, ideas systematized into theories. Ultimately it is ideas that drive people to peace or war, which shape the systems under which they live and which determine how the world's scarce ...
... social, economic, ideological and begins the process of creating a transnational capitalist class, over and above the nationstate'. As Parmar indicates, the best recent statement of this can be found in the works of Kees van der Pijl ...
... social arrangements are unjust unless the inequalities they inevitably involve can be rationally defended' – the principle of 'distributive justice'. There is now a widespread questioning of such questions as 'what obligations do rich ...
... social collectivity; egalitarian inasmuch as it confers on all humans the same moral status and denies the relevance to legal or political order of differences in moral worth among human beings; universalist, affirming the moral unity ...
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 | |