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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... liberal states to consolidate their liberal gains and to prevent the re-occurrence of wars with those states they have fought. He also explores how various strategies: revenge; restitution; reparation; restraint; retribution ...
... liberalism and the first great liberal century 2 Twentieth-century liberalism and thinking about war and peace, 1918 to the present 3 Reparations 4 Reconstruction until the Marshall Plan 5 Reconstruction after the Marshall Plan 6 ...
... liberal thought. Certainly in the aftermath of the Cold War there was a tendency to forget that the emergence of liberal thought is still a relatively recent phenomenon and that it is very likely that liberalism can only flourish under ...
... liberalism prevails over its enemies. Pacifism has never been part of the liberal creed. There is, however, much less agreement amongst liberals about either the validity of using force to propagate liberalism or what constitutes an ...
... liberal state, Lord Palmerston, was able to say that 'we have no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies'2 and non-intervention even against those states that were deeply abhorred by British liberal opinion were (generally) left alone ...
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 | |