Book Reviews : Defence of the Middle East. John C. Campbell. Oxford University Press for the Council on Foreign Relations. 40s
| DOI | 10.1177/004711786100200315 |
| Published date | 01 April 1961 |
| Date | 01 April 1961 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
191
collected
here
with
the
minimum
of
essential
comment.
The
work
is
divided
into
two
parts.
Part
I.
deals
with
the
Legal
Status
of
Persons
Abroad;
the
Legal
Implications
of
Activity
Extending
to
More
than
One
Country;
the
Reach
of
Legal
Systems;
Interaction,
Conflict
and
Accom-
modation.
Under
these
broad
headings
there
are a
number
of
Chapters
covering
the
following
aspects:
1.
Entry
into
a
foreign
Country,
Residence.
Movement.
Communication
and
Security
of
the
Person
within
a
Foreign
Country;
2.
Acquisition,
Retention
and
use
of
Property
within
a
Foreign
Country;
3.
Engaging in
Economic
Activity
within
a
Foreign
Country;
4.
Doing
Business
Abroad
as
a
Foreign
Corporation
or
through
a
Corporation
organized
under
Local
Law;
5.
International
Transactions
with
or
by
Governments
or
their
Instrumentalities;
6.
Obtaining
Evidence
and
Judicial
Assistance
Abroad;
7.
Recognition
and
Enforcement
of
Foreign
Civil
Monetary
Judgements.
Part
II.
consists
of
five
Chapters
covering
8.
Over-
lapping
or
Conflicting
Criminal
Laws;
9.
Overlapping
or
Conflicting
Regulations;
10.
Overlapping
or
Conflicting
Monetary
Regulations;
11.
Overlapping
or
Conflicting
Taxation;
12.
Nationalization,
Expropriation,
Annulment
of Contracts
or
Concessions.
There
is
a
short
Introduction
and
an
excellent
Index.
The
book
should
be
of
great
value
to
teachers
as
well
as
to
students
as
a
reference
book
containing
a
vast
amount
of
selected
information.
-
Defence
of
the
Middle
East.
John
C.
Campbell.
Oxford
University
Press
for
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations.
40s.
This
is
a
revised
edition
of
a
book
originally
published
in
1958
when
it
won
wide
acclaim
as
a
detailed
and
sober
survey
of
how
the
United
States
could
defend
the
Middle
East
against
Communism.
Since
then
there
have
been
notable
changes,
the
union
of
Syria
and
Egypt
in
the
U.A.R.
the
strife
in
the
Lebanon,
the
growth
of
communist
influence
in
Iraq
and
unrest
in
Baghdad.
It
now
carries
events
forward
to
1960.
Mr.
Campbell
is
the
author
of
three
volumes
of
the
United
States
in
World
Affairs
series
(1945-
1949).
He
served
for
over
ten
years
in
the
State
Department,
most
recently
on
the
Policy
Planning
Staff.
He
is
now
Director
of
Political
Studies
at
the
Council
on
Foreign
Relations
and
he
knows
the
area
about
which
he
writes
here
personally.
When
considering
the
possible
trend
of
American
policy
in
the
Middle
East
he
is
prepared
to
evaluate
any
regime
and
any
alliance
not
by
the
gratitude
which
it
has
expressed
to
the
West
for
any
aid
given,
nor
by
the
face
to
be
lost
by
abandoning
it,
but
purely
in
terms
of
the
relative
profit
and
loss
of
its
maintenance.
He
does
not
seek
to
cover
up
the
divergencies
between
the
American
and
the
West
European
needs
in
the
area
under
a
cloud
of
meaningless
verbiage
about
&dquo; our
loyal
allies
&dquo;,
but
frankly
acknow-
ledges
that
they
exist.
He
is
suitably
and
impartially
tart
both
about
American
policy
over
the
Palestine
Mandate
and
British
and
French
policy
over
Suez-equally
disastrous
in
their
results.
The
author
clearly
sees
that
the
role
of
military
forces
in
this
area
must
be
subservient
to
diplomacy.
There
is,
in
his
view,
no
base
worth
preserving
if
it
engenders
nationalist
hostility
since
it
would
be
useless
in
the
event
of
war.
No
Arab
army
is
worth
training
or
subsidizing
if
its
chief
aim
thereafter
is
either
to
crush
Israel
or
to
put
down
internal
insurrection.
No
military
alliance
is
of
any
help
if
it
involves
antagonizing
neighbouring
countries
and
thus
ranges
them
in
the
opposite
camp.
Above
all
the
threat
most
to
be
feared
is
not
overt
attack
from
the
north
but &dquo;
subversion
by
consent &dquo;,
against
which
the
pure
&dquo; Eisenhower
doctrine
&dquo; gave
little
help.
Military
intervention
in
such
circumstances
only
risks
at
the
worst
counter-intervention
and
at
the
best
the
condemnation
of
world
opinion
as
has
already
been
amply
demonstrated.
The
fault
of
the
book
is
that
the
author
is
too
preoccupied
with
the
Russian
threat
and
credits
the
Russian
leaders
with
too
clear-cut
a
policy,
while
in
reality
they
are
probably
merely
happy
in
actively
clouding
still
further the
already
muddied
waters.
He
mistrusts
any
agreement
with
them,
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