Book Reviews : Diplomacy and Persuasion: How Britain joined the Common Market. Uwe Kitzinger. Thames & Hudson. £2.75
| Author | W. Horsfall Carter |
| DOI | 10.1177/004711787200400311 |
| Published date | 01 August 1972 |
| Date | 01 August 1972 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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BOOK
REVIEWS
International
Disputes:
Case
Histories
1945-1970.
M.
D.
Donelan
and
M.
J.
Grieve.
Europa
Publications
for
the
David
Davies
Memorial
Institute
of
International
Studies.
286pp.
£3.75.
This
volume
contains
fifty
case-histories
of
international
disputes
set
in
roughly
chronological
order
from
Poland
1941-7
to
Czechoslovakia
1968,
though
in
some
instances
events
up
to
1970-1
are
recorded.
The
introduction,
short
but
pregnant
with
ideas,
describes
the
purpose :
’...
a
case-history
and
all
the further
study
of
the
oase
in
amplification
is
not
primarily
concerned
with
experience
but
with
reason.
Its
purpose
is
not
to
recreate
life
but
to
permit
rejection
on
principles.
It
is
not
intended
as
history
for
its
own
sake
but
as
material
for
political
theory’.
This
purpose
is
placed
in
the
context
of
broad
but
illuminating
observations
on
inter-
national
politics.
Political
organization,
it
is
stressed,
lags
behind
the
changes
in
other
aspects
of
culture
throughout
the
world,
and
is
still
centred
in
nation-states,
preoccupied
now
with
the
economy
rather
than
with
religion
or
ideology,
as
in
older
times.
The
bias
of
the
Western
countries,
materialist,
commercial,
democratic
towards
the
supposition
that
the
dominant
principle
of
association
or
conflict
is
’property’,
is
then
corrected.
The
fascination
with
action
for
its
own
sake,
the
desire for
esteem
and
honour
underlying
‘status’,
and
more
profound,
’the
sense
that
some
things
are
due,
the
sense
of
legitimacy,
the
sense
of
justice
and
injustice’,
are
forces
often
stronger
than
the
need
to
secure
’property’,
in
international
conflicts
and
struggles
for
power.
International
politics
are
then
a
vast
field
of
competition
and
co-operation
for
activity,
possessions
and
honour
and
’a
dispute
is
a
conflict
of
opinion
on
what
is
just.
Finally
then
‘i~t
is
in
the
area
of
reason
and
justice
that
the
great
questions
of
international
politics
lie ...
To
teach
only
the
behaviour
of
states
runs
the
risk
of
leaving
the
student
with
nothing
but
a
crude
and
dissatisfying
realism’.
It
is
against
this
background
of
ideas
that
the
international
disputes
have
been
chosen
and
set.
The
choice
and
presentation
is
remarkably
effective
in
a
number
of
ways.
The
historical
cover
since
1945
is
both
comprehensive
and
relevant,
for
there
are
few
regions
of
the
world
not
represented,
and few
contemporary
situations
of
political
friction
or
conflict
for
which
an
earlier
record
will
not
be
found
in
these
pages.
The
case-
histories
are
themselves
cool,
perceptive
and
accurate,
and
are
not
limited
to
bare
recitations
of
facts,
and
they
are
admirably
concise.
Each
is
amplified
by
a
short
bibliography.
The
volume
is
a
most
valuable
collection
of
sources
for
analyses
and
for
refleotion
on
international
politics.
It
is
the
last
of
a
series
of
three
studies
sponsored
by
the
David
Davies
Memorial
Institute
through
working
groups.
The
first
International
Disputes:
The
Legal
Aspects
(Europa
revised
and
reprinted
London
1972)
was
followed
by
Interrzational
Disputes:
The
Political
Aspects
(Europa,
London
1971),
to
which
the
present
study
is
complementary.
Of
the
working
group,
which
assisted
in
the
preparation
of
these
two
volumes,
Lord
Caccia
and
Lord
Inchyra
acted
as
Co-Chairmen.
Diplomacy
and
Persuasion:
How
Britain
joined
the
Common
Market.
Uwe
Kitzinger.
Thames
&
Hudson.
£2.75.
In
The
Challerxge
of
the
Common
Market
Uwe
Kitzinger
produced
the
best,
and
the
first,
primer
on
the
Community
phenomenon
and
Britain’s
relationship
with
it.
Later,
when
recording
in
The
Second
Try
the
docu-
mentary
evidence
of
the
Labour
Government’s
unsuccessful
bid,
his
prefaratory
essay
was
a
masterpiece.
His
new
study,
a
substantial
tome,
embraces
two
dominant
themes:
it
recounts
the
story
of
Britain’s
accession
to
the
E.E.C.
against
the
background
of
Anglo-French
point-counterpoint,
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