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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... created democracy, peace and prosperity in Europe at the end of a long and terrible war. Such a process of war leading to these desirable ends was now necessary elsewhere, in Iraq. The 'unfinished business' of 1991 now needed to be ...
... create a 'stable peace',6 one that briefly looked possible after the end of the Cold War. The events after the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the second war on Iraq in 2003 ...
... create a world where statesmen will not see war as the instrument of choice for change. As Chris Brown has written, IR itself can be said to have come out of the pursuit of answers to the prevalence of war and to 'address and promote ...
... created by war, as can be said to be evidenced by what is now unfolding in Northern Ireland. But ultimately the test of whether we can move to a global system where liberal norms and practices dominate and not those of the 'realist ...
... creating a transnational capitalist class, over and above the nationstate'. As Parmar indicates, the best recent statement of this can be found in the works of Kees van der Pijl, but also in such writers as Robert Cox, Stephen Gill and ...
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 | |