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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... Emanuel Adler Human Rights and World Trade Hunger in International Society Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez Liberalism and War The Victors and the Vanquished Andrew Williams Liberalism and War The victors and the vanquished Andrew Williams.
... society is not only 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 ...
... societies is the sheer breadth of reflection that goes on in them, a source of both great strength and also of great ... society opinion formation, the liberal (and other) press, both broadsheet and periodical. Second, I have also used a ...
... society, one based on liberal ideas, is the key focus of this book but also of much thinking in IR in general. All IR theory and indeed much of liberal, realist or whatever thought it might be argued, is about how to create a better ...
... societies there is usually some justification for war that is proposed before it is embarked upon. Adolf Hitler's Germany manufactured a 'border incident' with Poland in 1939 that 'insulted' German pride and sovereignty. Saddam Hussein ...
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 | |