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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... 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.
... Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the second war on Iraq in 2003, the constant fear of attacks by Muslim Fundamentalist groups and the ensuing security measures in all liberal democracies have all ...
... Trade Center attacks of 11 September 2001) and metaphorically the case. So we have to be tolerant of difference which can mean tolerating those who are not at all tolerant themselves – fundamentalists or extremists of all kinds. Where ...
... trade and to work through economic tools to reduce tensions and increase integrative processes. Many, if not all, liberals also have a strong streak of disbelief in what they see as extreme ideologies (communism and fascism, but also ...
... trade, the fountain of all prosperity. His Plan for a Universal and Perpetual Peace (1786–9) has echoes of Kant within it but a greater emphasis on war's economic illogicality. It is perhaps significant that these thoughts were not ...
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 | |