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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... democracy bring about peace? Is democracy necessarily a universal category? In particular it will be necessary to ask in this chapter and throughout the book whether the doctrine known as 'liberal internationalism' (LI) and whether LI ...
... democracy, has of course come in for huge criticism. Take just one example, a comment by American social historian John Dos Passos in 1938 on J. P. Morgan the great American banker: Wars and panics on the stock exchange, machine gun ...
... democracy the tool, a pluralistic society the guarantee. Such a society will ultimately be much stronger than its totalitarian enemies. In modern liberal terms it will be extremely tolerant, resistant to hypocrisy, informed by open and ...
... democratic peace argument – but such ideas can also be found in the writings of Norman Angell and virtually all the idealist Liberals of the 1920s and 1930s. Bentham equally had a moral objection to all war, one not unnaturally based on ...
... democratic and liberal world system and thus encouraged by liberals, even if, as Michael Walzer interprets Mill in On Liberty (1859) as putting it: We are to treat states as self determining communities ... whether or not their internal ...
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 | |