Book Notes
| Date | 01 June 1983 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002234338302000208 |
| Published date | 01 June 1983 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Book
Notes
Blechman,
Barry
M.,
ed.,
1982.
Rethinking
the
US
Strategic
Posture.
Cambridge,
Mass.,
Ballinger,
293
pp.
+
index.
The
book
is
the
outcome
of
a
study
initiated
by
the
Aspen
Consortium
on
Arms
Control
and
Security
Issues
in
1980
and
concluded
in
1982.
The
Study
Group
included
a
well selected
number
of
experts
in
strategic
studies
and
arms
control,
from
the
right
to
the
center.
Apart
from
the
Report
of
the
Study
Group,
the
book
contains
ten
chapters
by
individual
authors
on
strategic
issues.
As
a
whole,
the
book
makes
very
interesting
reading,
highly
relevant
to
current
debates
on
the
nuclear
arms
race,
nuclear
strategies
and
war-fighting
doctrines.
The
authors
appear
concerned
about
the
lack
of
an
effective
capability
to
wage
limited
and
protracted
nuclear
warfare
and
a
variable
nuclear-weapon
employment
strategy.
In
line
with
this,
the
Report
of
the
Study
Group
comes
out
in
support
of
’a
strategy
that
pushes
ahead
with
efforts
to
modern-
ize
US
strategic
forces.’
The
first
priority
goes
to
the
perfecting
of
a
survivable
command,
control,
communication
and
intelligence
network
followed
by
sea-based
strategic
forces,
strategic
bombers
and
(with
some
reservations
concerning
their
vul-
nerability)
by
land
based
missiles.
The
Study
also
advocates
arms
control
negotiations
so
as
’to
shape
the
strategic
environment
in
ways
that
are
bene-
ficial
to
American
security.’
Arms
control
nego-
tiations
are
seen
less
as
a
purely
military
issue
and
more
as
a
political,
largely
public
relation
problem,
inter
alia
to
mollify
pressures
from
public
opinion
for
disarmament.
In
a
statement
following
the
Report
of
the
Study
Group, George
Rathjens
dissents
and
argues
for
a
’freeze’
on
development,
testing,
and
deployment
of
central
strategic
systems,
against
the
deployment
in
Europe
of
cruise
missiles
and
Pershing
II,
against
negotiations
which
use
investments
made
in
new
weapon
systems
as
bargaining
chips,
and
for
unilateral
initiatives
in
the
hope
of
some
kind
of
reciprocation.
Campbell,
Duncan,
1982.
War
Plan
UK.
The
Truth
about
Civil
Defence
in
Britain.
London,
Burnett
Books,
488
pp.,
£6.95/
12.95.
Luber,
Burkhard
et
al.,
1982.
Bedrohungsallas
Bundes-
republik
Deutschland.
Wuppertal,
Jugenddienst-
Verlag,
141
pp.,
DM
12.80.
The
above
are
two
recent
examples
of
a
new
trend
in
empirical
investigations
of
defense
issues
in
Western
Europe,
inspired
by
and
inspiring
the
’new
peace
movement’.
Luber’s
volume
is
an
atlas
of
military
threats
to
the
German
Federal
Republic.
It
is
mainly
a
compilation
of
previously
published
material
about
the
location
of
major
military
in-
stallations
in
various
parts
of
the
country,
along
with
a
survey
of
sources
and
a
do-it-yourself
guide
to
further
investigations
by
citizens.
Campbell’s
book
begins
where
Luber’s
ends.
In
addition
to
the
easily
visible
above-ground
military
establishments,
it
describes
the
hidden
citadels
of
power
in
wartime,
the
bunkers
and
the
communications
systems.
It
considers
the
likely
effects
of
a
Soviet
nuclear
attack
on
Britain,
criticizes
official
pronounce-
ments
based
on
unrealistic
target
lists,
and
lambasts
the
government
for
its
disinterest
in
effective
protective
measures
for
the
general
public.
It
is
a
major
achievement
in
investigative
journalism.
Eisenstadt,
S.N.,
and
R.
Lemarchand,
eds.,
1981.
Political
Clientelism,
Patronage
and
Development.
London,
Sage,
£17
hardcover,
£7.95
paperback.
This
important
collection
of
essays
places
the
anthropological
concepts
of
patronage
and
cli-
entelism
firmly
into
the
mainstream
of
con-
temporary
political
science
and
thereby
provides
new
theoretical
insights
into
some
basic
theoretical
problems
and
controversies
relating
to,
among
other
things,
class
and
ethnicity
in
modern
state
systems.
The
core
of
patron-client
relations
is
not
seen
as
a
concrete
organizational
form,
but
rather
as
a
specific
type
of
exchange
relationship
which
can
be
embedded
in
a
wide
range
of
political
systems
-
democratic
as
well
as
authoritarian
-
and
which
cuts
across
the
divide
between
econ-
omically
developed
and
underdeveloped
countries.
The
essays
indicate
the
critical
manner
in
which
political
clientelism
affects
and
shapes
political
and
economic
developmental
processes.
Case
studies
are
taken
from
Italy,
Poland,
France,
Mexico,
Peru
and
Turkey.
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