Liberal internationalism: the interwar movement for peace in Britain

Concepts and policies deriving from political and social movements in supportof liberal nationalism are hotly debated today. Civil society has actively engaged in controversies over intervention in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan,Iraq and the Lebanon. Pugh investigates the role of popular liberal internationalism as a social movement in Britain, addressing the use of force for peacethrough an examination of the impact of civil society actors in between wars.The interwar social movements had a massive and lasting influence on British approaches to international politics and influenced the UN's approach to peacekeeping, use of force and peace-building. This book considers social movementsfor peace and security which probe below the level of state policies. Using Gramscian and Foucauldian ideas of civil society and society, it critically examines the factions and fluidities of a movement that was suffused with values at once humane and superior, tolerant and dogmatic, universalistic and imperial. Pugh explores one of the most powerful social movements for collective security in modern history, a movement which trespassed conventional political boundaries and provided innovative ideas for constructing peace through collective security. INDICE: Preface. Introduction: Liberal Internationalism, a Social Movementfor Peace.Governance: Ideological and Political Trespass.Education: Democratic Accountability and Paper Guarantees.Disarmament: White Robes of Peace or Jackboots and Spurs?.Innovation: Arming the League with Air Power.Resistance: Pacifism and the Power of Defiance.Imperialism: Economic Security and Sanctions.Revisionism: Rearmament and Peaceful Change.Conclusion: Retrenchment, Reform and Colonisation.Appendix I: Group Memberships.Appendix II: Circulation Figures

• ISBN: 978-0-230-53763-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 05/10/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido