Book Review: United Nation: Success or Failure?
| Published date | 01 March 1954 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205400900119 |
| Author | C. R. Davy |
| Date | 01 March 1954 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
67
Organization
did
not
lead
him
to
take
a
narrowly
legalistic
view
of
it,
nor
did
his
identification
for
six
years
with
the
object
of
his
study
completely blind
him
to
its
limitations
and
failures.
But as
all
who
are
familiar
with
previous
writings
of
Mr.
Feller
would
expect,
this
is
no
disinterested
analysis
of
another
political
institution but
a
clear
statement
of
faith
by
one
who
was
"an
enthusiastic
advocate" of
the
United Nations
and
who believed
it
"to
be
one
of
the
great
adventures
of
history."
Does
the
record
of
the
United Nations
offer
hope
that
it
will
give
us
a
better
world?
Mr.
Feller
thinks
it
does.
He devotes
six
chapters
to
the
usual description
of
the
structure
and
work
of
the
United
Nations:
original
structure
and
functions,
informal
amendments,
case
studies
of
peaceful and
not-so-peaceful
settle-
ment,
disarmament
past
and
future,
the
development
of
an
"international
conscience"
through
economic
and
social
work
and
finally
trusteeship
and
non-self
governing
territories.
Mr.
Feller
seems
to
over-estimate
the
role
of
the
United
Nations
at
the
expense
of
traditional
diplomacy
in
the
settlement
of
some
of
the
issues
he
describes and
to
take
a
more
unreserved
view
of
the
absolute
success
of such
ventures
as
Libya
than
the
facts
would
seem
to
justify.
The
last
three
chapters
are
interesting
because
of
the
debate
they
will
arouse.
While
dealing
with
the
United
Nations
as
the
beginning
of
a
world
community,
the
contribution
it
has
made
and
will
make
to
the
further
development of
a
world law
and
its
future
Mr.
Feller
once
again
takes
up
the
cudgels
against
those
he
calls
the
"neorealists"
-
the
devotees of
the
Morgenthau-
Kennan
school
in
the
United
States
-
and
in
a much
gentler
manner against
those
who
see
as
the
only
hope
a
world
govern-
ment
now.
While
not
a
critical analysis
in
the
best
sense
of
the
term
this
statement
of
faith
is
a
testimony
to
the
sincerity
and
devo-
tion
of
a
great
international
civil
servant.
Edmonton, August,
1952
C.
R.
DAVY
UNITED
NATIONS:
SUCCESS
OR
FAILURE?
Proceedings
of
the
Academy
of
Political
Science.
Vol.
XXV,
No.
2.
January,
1953.
(New
York:
Academy
of
Political
Science.
iv,
12
7pp.
$2.50)
Readers
who
are
familiar
with
the
Proceedings
will
not
be
surprised
to
find
that
the
papers
and
addresses
at
the
session
of
November,
1952,
were
very
uneven in
quality.
The
general
topic
is
divided
into
three
parts:
The
United
Nations
and
Human
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