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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... policy makers) of international politics. The choice of who 'really mattered' in either category is necessarily ... foreign ministry unpublished and published material, especially from the United States and Britain. This I do not believe ...
... foreign policy or to justify the expansion of Western military and other forms of power. That was self-defence. Now there is a clear need to consolidate the victory of the West by claiming a clear moral high ground. Hence in the West ...
... foreign policy.21 Liberals believe that the application of the basic tenets of the credo to the practice of international relations, both in terms of how states should relate to other states, will lead to the creation of a better world ...
... foreign policy, peace and war after Kant Most states by 1815 had accepted the need for principles of international order, even those that were not democratic. All of them tried (and, for a realist, 'try' still) and reinforce what ...
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 | |