Concepts and policies deriving from political and social
movements in support of 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 peace through 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 movements for 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.
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