Book Reviews : The Statesman's Year Book 1975/1976. Ed. John Paxton. Macmillan. £5.95

DOI10.1177/004711787600500315
Published date01 April 1976
Date01 April 1976
Subject MatterArticles
1055
prestige
and
much
of
the
effectiveness
of
the
World
Organization
stems
from
its
moral
force&dquo;,
the
difficult
balancing
act
required
from
the
Secretary-General
is
to
maintain
such
moral
force
without
overstepping
the
posibility
of
making
it
effective
at
least
as
regards
the
attainment
of
limited,
but
often
vital
objectives.
.
In
&dquo;The
Commonwealth
Secretariat&dquo;
Professor
Margaret
Doxey
sur-
veys
the
functional
activities
of
this
body
which
she
foresees
fulfilling
useful
functional
activities
for
a
long
time
ahead.
Jeffrey
Harrod
con-
cludes
&dquo;Transnational
Power&dquo;
by
the
assertion
that
&dquo;transnational
rela-
tions
and
transnational
power
as
they
currently
manifest
themselves
may
eventually
reinforce
nationalism
and
inter-nation
hostility
and
strengthen
the role of
State
power&dquo;
which
is
not
the
usual
reaction
to
the
role
of
the
multi-nationals.
Other
articles
are
&dquo;Middle
Power
Roles
in
Great
Power
Triangles&dquo;,
Carsten
Holbread;
&dquo;The
Concept
of
War&dquo;,
J.
C.
Garnett;
&dquo;Peace
Keep-
ing :
The
Police
Function&dquo;,
C.
R.
Mitchell;
&dquo;The
Acquisition
of
Arms
by
Poor
States&dquo;,
Ian
Bellany;
&dquo;Indonesia:
Language
and
Nation
Build-
ing&dquo;,
Russell
Jones;
&dquo;The
Conduct
of
Foreign
Policy
in
Democratic
and
Authoritarian
States&dquo;,
P.
Williams
and
M.
H.
Smith;
&dquo;The
Market
Economies
of
the
West&dquo;,
Professor
A.
Nussbaumer;
&dquo;The
International
Inflation&dquo;,
Professor
John
Vaizey
- in
which,
incidentally,
his
conclu-
sions
as
to
the
immediate
future
are
pessimistic
indeed
-
and
&dquo;Flexible
Exchange
Rates&dquo;,
L.
W.
Ross.
In
&dquo;Dilemmas
of
Super-Growth&dquo;
C.
A.
Shaw
discusses
the
effects
of
(Western)
man’s
unquenched
thirst
for
super-growth.
The demand
for
nuclear
power -
with
all
its
involved
problems
- is
entirely
due
to
the
depletion
of
raw
material
resources
due
to
man’s
ever-rising
demands.
He
lists
ten
general
measures
to
curb
growth
which
should
be
encouraged:
&dquo;(1)
Zero
population
growth;
(2)
Home
agricultural
production;
(3)
Collection
and
recycling
of
waste,
domestic,
commercial,
and
industrial
materials;
(4)
Lower
consumption
and
waste
of
energy;
(5)
Local
energy
generation,
i.e.
at
the
home,
school,
of~ce,
factory
and
so
on;
(6)
The
production
of
genuinely
durable
consumer
goods
with
replaceable
parts;
(7)
The
building
of
strategic
stock-piles;
(8)
Research
into
greater
self-sufficiency;
(9)
Public
under-
standing
and
acceptance
of
the
new
course;
(10)
The
stimulation
of
cul-
tural
and
leisure
pursuits&dquo;;
and
ends
&dquo;The
crisis
into
which
mankind
is
slipping,
as
most
people
sense
even
if
they
find
difficulty
in
expressing
it
other
than
in
terms
of
rising
prices
in
the
shops,
boils
down
therefore
to
a
conflict
between
man’s
search
for
civilization
and
his
errant
selfish-
ness.
If
man
will
not
reform
himself,
nature
will
most
surely
take
her
due
revenge&dquo;.
Professor
Ronald
Yalem
in
&dquo;The
Decline
of
International
Relations
Theory&dquo;
takes
a
critical
stroll
through
the
jungle
of
competing
theoretical
and
methodological
schools
which
at
present
occupy
the
area
and
makes
a
plea
for
the
formulation
of
an
introductory
general
theory
as
a
guide
through
chaos.
The
final
contribution
is
a
paper
on
&dquo;The
principles
of
the
United
Nations
in
International
Judicial
Perspective&dquo;.
This
is
adapted
from
a
chapter
in
Professor
Schwarzenberger’s
forthcoming
book
(Volume
Three)
&dquo;International
Law
as
Applied
by
International
Courts
and
Tribunals
on
International
Constitutional
Law&dquo;.
It
is
prefaced
by
Dag
Hammerskjold’s
&dquo;The
Principles
of
the
Charter,
are,
by
far,
greater
than
the
Organization
in
which
they
are
embedded&dquo;.
After
examining
these
Principles
the
author
concludes:
&dquo;It
may
even
happen
that
the
Court
itself
may
have
to
seek
refuge
in
the
Principles.
They
are
well
suited
to
protect
the
principal
judicial
organ
of
the
United
Nations
against
political
pressures
to
transform
the
Court
into
a
’co-operative’
’Court,
subservient
to
the
political
organs
of
the
United
Nations&dquo;.
The
Statesman’s
Year
Book
1975/1976.
Ed.
John
Paxton.
Macmillan.
£5.95.
We
can
only
greet
with
pleasure
another
edition
of
this
invaluable
reference
book.
The
amount
of
information
it
contains
on
the
nations
of
the
world
and
on
International
Organisations
is
truly
astonishing
to
find
collected
in
one
volume.
It
also
has
the
great
merit
of
being
well
indexed,
which
in
such
a
condensed
work
is
essential.

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