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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... logics of justice and peace 7 Restorative justice, reconciliation and resolution Conclusion Do liberal dilemmas disable all liberal solutions to war? Notes Bibliography Index Preface The liberal triumphalism that surfaced across the ...
... logic was clear. Wars had to be succeeded by reconstruction, as they had in 1945 and in the 1990s with the old Eastern Bloc. A member of the ultraliberal American Enterprise Institute put it even more succinctly: 'America's revenge' was ...
... logic'.6 Constructivist and post-modern IR theorists of war and peace make the same links between what they say is the nexus 'war – power – modernity'.7 The simplified insight of this school of thought is that ideas (like liberalism) ...
... logic was used by the state of Israel and by Zionist Jewish colonists before and after 1948 to justify the expulsion of Arab 'nomads' from their land so that it could be improved by technologically more advanced settlers. Loche thus ...
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 | |