Book Reviews : Contemporary International Theory and the Behaviour of States. Joseph Frankel, Oxford University Press. £1.25 (hard). 60p (paper). Unity and Disintegration in International Alliances. Ole R. Holsti, P. Terrence Hopmann, John D. Sullivan. A Wiley-Interscience Publication. John Wiley & Son. £6.50
| Published date | 01 August 1972 |
| Date | 01 August 1972 |
| DOI | 10.1177/004711787200400312 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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operations:
in
the
country
at
large;
within
the
Labour
Movement;
among
the
churches,
employers
and
trade
unions;
in
television,
on
the
radio
and in
the
press.
A
dedicated
’European’
since
his
schooldays,
Uwe
Kitzinger
does
not
shrink
from
the
conclusion
that,
had
the
1970
election
gone
the
other
way,
Harold
Wilson
would
have
taken
Britain
into
Europe,
all
flags
flying,
on
terms
not
dissimilar
from
those
endorsed
by
Mr.
Heath.
This
is
an
important
book:
not
a
definitive
study
of
’how
things
really
happened,
but
rather,
as
the
author
suggests,
a
quarry
for
the
historians
and
students
of
politics
alike.
(Nor
does
he
fail
to
appreciate
that
marketeers
and
anti-marketeers
may
use
stones
from
it
to
throw
at
one
another).
In
a
hurry
to
get
it
out,
Kitzinger
has
tried
to
tell
us
too
much.
It
was,
I
think,
a
mistake
to
write
two
books
in
one.
And
a
Fellow
of
Nuffield
College
should
not
allow
the
date
of
the
San
Francisco
Conference
establishing
the
United
Nations
to
be
given
as
1944!
W.
HORSFALL
CARTER.
Contemporary
International
Theory
and
the
Behaviour
of
States.
Joseph
Frankel,
Oxford
University
Press.
£1.25
(hard).
60p
(paper).
Unity
and
Disintegration
in
International
Alliances.
Ole
R.
Holsti,
P.
Terrence
Hopmann,
John
D.
Sullivan.
A
Wiley-Interscience
Publication.
John
Wiley
&
Son.
£6.50.
Professor
Frankel
has
produced
a
most
useful
introduction
to
the
current
&dquo;theoretical
ways
of
thinking
about
international
relations&dquo;.
His
book,
he
says,
concerns
itself
with
what
theory
is
for
and
about,
rather
than
what
it
is;
thus
throwing
a
much-needed
lifeline
to
the
bemused
onlooker
somewhat
desperately
treading
water
amongst
the
spate
of
works
on
aspects.
of
the
subject.
&dquo;Moreover&dquo;,
he
goes
on,
&dquo;it
is
selective
in
emphasis,
concentrating
heavily
upon
the
behavioural
approaches
and,
within
them,
upon
the
role
of
values
and
the
concept
of
national
interest.&dquo;
The
sections
of
the
book
deal
successively
with
Theory
and
Practice,
The
Nature
of
International
Theory,
Systems
and
Analysis
and
Allied
Approaches,
Integration
Theory
and
the
Functionalist
Thesis;
The
Actions
of
States
and
States
in
Interaction.
The
final
section
consists
of
a
Case-
Study :
Britain
and
the
E.E.C.,
in
which
the
play
of
the
various
factors
already
distinguished
is
assessed.
The
second
book
reviewed
here
is
an
attempt
to
discover
the
factors
that
operate
in
the
initiation,
continuation
and
disintegration
of
inter-
nati-onal
alliances
between
States.
The
authors
set
the
subject
in
historical
perspective
in
the
introduction
to
Chapter
One.
As
a
study
of
the
contemporary
state
of
alliances
this
is
a
most
interesting
and
informative
work,
though
necessarily
much
of
the
material
can
be
taken
for
granted
as
being
part
of
accepted theory
based
on
practice.
But
they
abandoned
their
original
search
for
a
theory
of
alliances,
in
favour
of
the
much
more
pragmatic
acceptance
of
the
fact
that
each
alliance
operates
according
to
the
circumstances
which
brought
it
into
being
or
decrees
its
end.
The
authors
follow
many
interesting
detours
before
reaching
this
conclusion.
Documents
on
British
Foreign
Policy
1919-1939,
Series
IA
Vol.
V.
European
and
Security
Questions
1928.
928
pages.
Documents
on
British
Foreign
Policy
1919-1939,
Second
Series,
Vol. XII.
European
Affairs
August
1934 -
April
1935.
929
pages.
Edited
by
W.
N.
Medlicott,
Douglas
Dakin
and
H.
E.
Lambert.
Her
Majesty’s
Stationery
Office.
£9.50
and
£10.75
respectively.
Once
again
the
worlds
of
politics
and
learning
are
further
indebted
to
the
herculean
labours
of
the
authors
of
the
two
latest
extensive
volumes
of
Documents
on
British
Foreign
Policy.
It
is
scarcely
their fault
that
they
make
depressing
reading
as
one
watches
the
apparently
inevitable
drift
towards
the
Second
World
War.
Chapters
I
and
II
of
Vol.
V
cover
the
vexed
questions
of
German
reparations
and
the
occupation
of
the
Rhine-
land,
the
subject
of
six-power
meetings
in
Geneva.
The
warnings
against
German
expansionism
sent
to
the
Foreign
Office
become
ever
clearer
and
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