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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... century the leader of that century's great liberal state, Lord Palmerston, was able to say that 'we have no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies'2 and non-intervention even against those states that were deeply abhorred by British ...
... century as that country has emerged from its nineteenth century isolation to become the greatest power on Earth. Several recent books point to the enduring legacy of Wilsonian intervention, Michael Mandelbaum talking of the '[Wilsonian] ...
... century liberal as well as many that opposed war in the terms of the liberalism of John Stuart Mill, who famously said that 'peoples get the governments they deserve'. Non-intervention was then, and for many liberals is still, the norm ...
... century, in 1914, in 1939 (and many times in the intervening years), during the Cold War and since, there have been a number of occasions on which liberal states have indulged in a frenzy of selfexamination and self-criticism. The ...
... century, which explains IR's 'Anglo-American leanings', ones which still dominate its institutional structure and 'academic discourse'. Furthermore, again in line with Brown's commentary, 'liberalism' is here seen as being of the mainly ...
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 | |