Conor Cruise O’Brien, the historian, was a redoubtable foe of what he termed “unilateral liberalism”. He identified this as a stance acutely sensitive to threats to liberty arising from actions by democratic states, but phlegmatic about threats to liberty from the enemies of those states.
Much of the debate on security policy for western democracies in the 21st century has been shaped by this type of unilateral liberalism. [The Times (£)] Read more
