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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... War world compared with just ten during the whole of the Cold War era. Andrew Williams provides a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, using a vast range of historical archival ...
... wars were terminated throughout the course of the twentieth century. Examining the current dilemmas and disagreements in the context of this much longer time period makes it possible for Williams to offer a more nuanced and balanced ...
... Wars had to be succeeded by reconstruction, as they had in 1945 and in the 1990s with the old Eastern Bloc. A member ... wars since about 1900 to try and consolidate their liberal gains and to prevent the reoccurrence of war with those ...
... war as an acceptable way for states and peoples to resolve their differences. If the developments of the last 15 years or so since the end of the Cold War have taught us anything in the study of international relations one lesson must ...
... war against Iraq of 1991 'will not be a war about democracy', that view was now untenable. Now, says Berman, 'we were facing a totalitarian menace – something akin to fascism ... the entire situation has the look of Europe in 1939 ...
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 | |