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. |
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... argued in this book that these 'leanings' are in part at least an inherent dialogue between 'realist' obsessions with power and interest and 'liberal' yearnings after what Immanuel Kant called 'Perpetual Peace' and has often been ...
... argued, so do liberals who wish to defend what is being attacked. Parmar is also very critical of van der Pijl's 'absence of [historical] evidence' for many of these claims, but they are widely used in secondary literature and are ...
... argued that 'conservatism' might be a better way of describing what here passes for 'realist' thought. Jennifer Welsh for example points to Edmund Burke as the founder of a particular kind of notion of 'international legitimacy ...
... arguments among themselves they still dominate the debates of politics and culture and combine this with an ability to send vast numbers of young (mainly working class) men and women to war for their ambiguous, and indeed often ...
... argued that the nature of opposition to war in the twentieth century necessitates an initial distinction between 'pacifism' and 'pacificism' (his italics), the first meaning an outright opposition to participation in war, a ...
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 | |