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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... effects on not just 'realist' thought but also on liberal thought, as in the discussion about 'humanitarian intervention', very popular since the end of the Cold War. So this chapter and the next will therefore attempt to.
... effect for centuries. As Edward Skidelsky, a critic of this view, has pointed out, this view is conservative in the extreme and directed against liberals and Marxists alike: 'both vainly aspire to remake the world in the image of reason ...
... effect and 'uncultivated nature has been left to itself, without the help of letters and discipline and the improvements of arts and sciences'. Williams makes it clear that Locke thus wished to see the improvement of mankind to make the ...
... effect as 'a failure, indeed a disaster'.45 But for Gallie the idea behind it is key to all thought on the subject since. For Kant asks in very concrete terms: 'How can we conceptualise the problem of peace?' (and how can we do this in ...
... effect this would have both on established autocratic Empires in Europe but also over the linked spread of liberalism, which these same autocratic empires saw as a dangerous cancer at the heart of traditional political and social values ...
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 | |