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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... means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A ...
... means of spreading or confirming an ideology and practice that has become increasingly self-consciously universal in aspiration and impact. This trend has now arguably reached its highest, or 'lowest', point, depending on your view of ...
... means everywhere. However it is also assumed that we have to be very self-critical in our assumptions about liberal values, to acknowledge that they are open to accusations of hypocrisy and self-justification. The realities of power ...
... mean policy makers) of international politics. The choice of who 'really mattered' in either category is necessarily subjective and also has changed over time. The choice of which thinkers to analyse can seem bewildering as one of the ...
... means of production and the Zeitgeist (as with modernity) mutually determine how ideas are implemented by soldiers and politicians.8 This is, of necessity, a summary survey and it relies on a certain number of basic inspirations ...
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 | |