Book Review: International Politics and Economics: On Dealing with the Communist World, Shaping the Future
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206502000113 |
| Date | 01 March 1965 |
| Published date | 01 March 1965 |
| Author | F. H. Soward |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
117
conduct
a
constant
air
watch
over
Cuba
against the
reappearance
of
missiles.
Does
such
a
curbing
of
the
sovereignty
of
a
small
nation
foretell
a
time
when
the
United
States
-and
U.S.S.R.
will
insist
not
each
on
the
inspection
of
the
other,
but
jointly
on
the
inspection
of
third
countries,
with
the
legal
sanction
for
this
violation
of
pre-existing
international
law
provided
by
a
request
of
the
General
Assembly?
University
of
Chicago
NATHAN
KEYFITZ
ON
DEALING
WITH
THE
COMMUNIST
WORLD.
By
George
F.
Kennan.
1964.
(New
York:
Harper
&
Row.
Toronto:
Longmans.
xi,
57pp.
$3.75)
SHAPING
THE
FUTURE.
Foreign
Policy
in
an
Age
of
Transition.
By
Robert
R.
Bowie.
1964.
(New
York: Columbia
University
Press;
Toronto:
Copp
Clark,
viii,
ll8pp.
$3.50)
Messrs.
Kennan
and
Bowie
were
asked
last
year
to deliver
respec-
tively
the
Elihu
Root
lectures
for
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations
and
the
William
Radner
lectures
at
Columbia
University. Each
man
drew
upon
his diplomatic
experience
to
illustrate
the argument
which
he
advanced
and
offers
us
some
timely
comments.
Mr. Kennan,
fresh
from
his
frustrating
service
as
American
Ambassador
to
Yugoslavia,
is
saddened
and
concerned
at
the hardening
of
a
growing segment
of
American
opinion
against
negotiations
with
the
Communist
world.
It
has
created
in
his
view
"a
crisis
of
opinion
of
such
seriousness
as
to
constitute
of
itself a
great
and
present
danger."
He
would
welcome
a
new
national
debate
on
"the
basic
issue
of
co-existence,"
and
his
lectures
are
a
major
contribution
to
it.
Mr.
Kennan
has
a
weakness
for
unnecessarily
convoluted
sentences,
but
he
is
never
dull
and
he has
strong
convictions. His
views
on
East-West
trade
or
upon
"Polycentrism
and Western
Policy"
are
as
stimulating
as
anything
we
are
likely
to
get
and
a
useful
tract
of
our
times.
Professor
Bowie
lacks
the
pas-
sionate
intensity
which
colours
his colleague's
writing,
but
he
is
also
on
the
side of
the
angels.
Believing
that
the
supreme
task
of
our
time
is
to
organize
and
define
"a
new
global
order
congenial
to
free-
dom,"
his
requisites
for
American
foreign
policy
are
"clarity
regarding
long-term
objectives,"
"suitable
intermediate
programmes,"
and
"steadi-
ness
and
patience
in
pursuing
such
goals
and
problems."
What
most
interests
him
is
the
search
for
European
unity
and
an
Atlantic
order
which he
describes
lucidly
and
succinctly.
President
de
Gaulle
comes
in
for
some
adverse
comment,
but
the
author
also
expresses
regret
that
the
United
States,
by
continuing
to
go
along
with
the
Churchillian
concept
of
a
"special
relationship"
between
the
United
States
and
the
United
Kingdom,
has
helped
the
latter
"to
bolster
an
outdated image
of
her
influence
and
opinion."
Mr.
Bowie
makes
a
strong
case
for
a
seabound
multilateral
missile
force and
is
more
prepared
than
his
government,
provided
the
drive
towards
unity
in
Europe
is
resumed,
"to
concede
to
a
European or
NATO
force
ultimate
autonomy
without
a
veto."
Canadians
will
be
interested to
know
that
he
wants
the
idea
of
a small
inner
committee
to
manage
NATO
"candidly examined."
University
of
British
Columbia
F.
H.
SoWARD
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