Book Reviews : The Study of International Affairs: Essays in Honour of Kenneth Younger. Edited by Roger Morgan. The Oxford University Press for Chatham House. £5.00
| Date | 01 August 1972 |
| Published date | 01 August 1972 |
| DOI | 10.1177/004711787200400318 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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:
freedom,
and
popular
control
over
the
fate
of
the
nation.
But
those
t
achievements
have
not
been
matched
in
the
sphere
of
foreign
policy.
The
.
supreme
goal
of
peace
has
been thwarted
mainly
by
Arab
intransigence
and,
increasingly,
Soviet
hostility.
In
part,
too,
the
failure
lies
in
the
basic
foreign
policy
decisions
which
Israel
made
in
response
to
her
leaders’ per-
ceptions
of
their
environment.
The
qualitative
jump
in
the
Psychological
Environment
remains
an
historic
task
unfulfilled&dquo;.
He
points
out,
moreover,
that
one
source
of
that
lack
of
success
is
that
the
general
neglect
by
Israeli
politicians
and
leaders
of
the
arts
of
diplomacy
in
the
wider
sense,
openly
despised
by
Ben
Burion,
had
entailed
that
by
the
end
of
1970
Israel
was
in
a
condition
of
near
total
dependence
on
the
United
States.
Of
outstanding
interest
in
Part
II
are
the
studies
of the
Israeli
leaders
who
have
made,
or
are
still
making,
the
crucial
decisions
in
the
formula-
tion
of
foreign
policy
-
Ben
Gurion,
to
whose
philosophical
and
practical
outlook,
as
well
as
to
the
Prime
Ministership,
Golda
Meir
today
has
succeeded,
and
Moshe
Sharett
in
the
past,
Dayan,
Eban,
Allon,
Sapir
and
Peres
today.
It
would,
however,
seem
to
this
reviewer
at
least
that
the
facts
which
emerge
most
clearly
from
this
fascinating
and
detailed
study
are
that
in
the
first
place
Israeli
foreign
policy
was
largely
pragmatic
and
in
the
second
place,
apart
from
a
few
fixed
constants,
partly
geographical,
partly
historical,
no
such
thing
as
a
foreign
policy
&dquo;system&dquo;
exists,
that
is
to
say
a
&dquo;system&dquo;
which works
beyond
the
state
boundaries
within
which
it
applies.
This
does
not,
however,
invalidate
the
very
real
value
of
researches
such
as
this.
The
Wages
of
War
1816-1965:
A
Statistical
Handbook.
J.
David
Singer
and
Malcolm
Small.
London,
Toronto,
New
York.
John
Wiley.
£5.85.
This
book
is
dedicated
by
the authors
to
&dquo;those
few
who
have
been
working
toward
a
scientific
theory
of
the
causes
and
consequences
of
war,
and
to
the
many
more
who
will
soon
be
doing
so&dquo;.
It
is
further
described
as
a
pioneering
effort
in
a
largely
chaotic
field.
The
material
is
divided
into
Part
A
Rationale
and
Procedures,
Part
B
The
Wars,
Part
C
The
System
and
Part
D
The
Nations. Part
A
is
intro-
ductory
and
outlines
the
methods
employed,
Part
B
describes
and
ranks
the individual
wars,
Part
C
generalizes
on
the
incidence
of
war
in
the
international
system
and
in
Part
D
the
individual
nation
is
the
focus
of
investigation.
The
authors
employ
two
sets
of variables:
ecological
and
behavioural
&dquo;Ecologically,
factors
such
as
trade
agreements;
alliances;
urbanization;
demography;
military
budgets;
diplomatic
bonds;
and
iron
production&dquo;
are
assessed.
In
the
behavioural
realm,
the
study
analyses
comprehensive
&dquo;wins&dquo;
and
&dquo;losses&dquo;
of
each
nation
in
each
conflict;
frequency,
seasonal
and
monthly
distribution
of
wars;
war
&dquo;proneness&dquo;,
effort
and
intensity;
and
the
effect
of
every
act
-
whether
hostile
or
amicable
in
nature
-
on
the
existing
status
quo
between
two
or
more
nations.
The
facts
assembled
are
useful;
whether
any
viable
theory
emerges
at
this
stage
is
more
doubtful.
The
Study
of
International
Affairs:
Essays
in
Honour
of
Kenneth
Younger.
Edited
by
Roger
Morgan.
The
Oxford
University
Press
for
Chatham
House.
£5.00.
This
volume
of
essays,
published
in
honour
of
the
former
Director
of
Chatham
House,
Kenneth
Younger,
reviews
the
field
of
the
study
of
interna,tional
affairs
since
the
Institute
was
founded.
The
contributors
are
past
and
present
members
of
the
Chatham
House
research
staff
and
others
closely
associated
with
the
Insti~tute’s
work.
The
present
Director,
Andrew
Shonfeld,
writes
an
Introduction
on
the
Nature
of
International
Studies
which
is
largely
concerned
witch
the
necessity’
of
an
interdisciplinary
approach,
and
the
advantages
and
dis-
advantages
of
model-making.
One
point
would
seem
to
the
present
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