Liberalism and War: The Victors and the VanquishedMilitary 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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 52
... Union seem to want to spread its illiberal message across the globe? How could anyone claim that the United States, the twentieth century's great liberal power, could be suspected of imperial ambition when its urge was so clearly to ...
... Union is often used as a perfect model of what such a complex might look like. So in particular this book asks if and how we can create what is often referred to as 'just and lasting peace' after war? It is thus in the tradition of the ...
... Union and been wounded several times.28 This scepticism that war can ever achieve its stated beneficial aims also comes out very strongly in the thinking of Woodrow Wilson and nearly all American and British liberals. So another key ...
... Union until 1990. There is an obvious overlap with a hatred of authoritarian regimes, as with Churchill and Roosevelt against the Nazis, or Ronald Reagan against the USSR. Thus there is some liberal disagreement about who are the main ...
... Union and influenced the moderation of many others, including arguably China. It has also led to the spread of an economic system of capitalism that many (liberals included) would say is deeply divisive to a global political system ...
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 | |