Europe, America and the World Economy, edited by Loukas Tsoukalis. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986, £25.00
| Author | Geoffrey Edwards |
| DOI | 10.1177/004711788700900110 |
| Published date | 01 April 1987 |
| Date | 01 April 1987 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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international
relations&dquo;
and
&dquo;of
its
view
of
the
action
that
it
has
undertaken
on
the
world
scene&dquo;.
It
attempts
to
do
this
by
presenting
a
systematic
selection
of
Third
World
texts
drawn
from
official
declarations,
political
speeches,
legal
documents
and
analytical
texts
concerning
the
post-war
period.
These
are
linked
with
sensible
commentaries
to
three
major
themes:
National
self-assertion
and
regional
co-operation;
Non-Alignment;
and
Development
and
the
New
International
Order.
The
authors
rightly
point
to
the
uniqueness
of
this
enterprise
in
that
they
are
presenting
Third
World
views
of
the
Third
World.
Their
enterprise
can
be
interestingly
compared
with
a
sympathetic
though
basically
Western
view
of
the
subject
of
international
order
including
current
Third
World
participation
which
appeared
the
same
year
as
the
original
French edition-The
Expansion
of
International
Society
edited
by
Hedley
Bull
and
Adam
Watson.
The
other
two
major
documentary
series
in
this
area
are,
of
couise,
Jankowitsch
and
Sauvant’s
12
volumes
on
the
evolution
of
the
non-aligned
and
the
Group
of
77
which,
however,
only
go
up
to
the
late
1970s.
The
range
of
material
selected
and
the
comment
upon
it
is
wide
and
judicious.
Equal
weight
is
given
to
political
and
economic
questions:
it
is
good
to
see
reference
made
to
the
significance
of
movements
and
conferences
which
are
often
forgotten
(e.g.
the
1962
non-aligned
Conference
on
the
Problems
of Economic
Development,
the
role
of
the
Muslim
World
including
the
organization
of
the
Islamic
Conference,
and
the
final
communiqu6
of
the
Conference
on
International
Economic
Co-operation).
The
one
major
area
left
out
of
consideration
is
any
examination
of
the
creative
role
played
by
Yugoslavia
in
shaping
the
non-aligned-a
role
interestingly
explored
in
Rubinstein’s
book
on
Yugoslavia
and
the
Non-Aligned
World
(Princeton
University
Press
1975).
As
Rubinstein
states,
Yugoslavia’s
election
to
the
Security
Council
in
1950-51
with
Egypt
and
India
&dquo;was
providential
because
it
was
during
this
period
of 1950-51,
in
which
Yugoslavia
came
into
intimate
and
prolonged
contact
with
the newly
independent
nations
of
Asia
and
Africa,
that
the
seeds
of
non-alignment
germinated&dquo;.
The
subsequent
important
role
of Yugoslavia
in
the
non-aligned
is
however
well
recognised
by
the
inclusion
ofTito’s
speech
to
the
1978
non-aligned
Foreign
Ministers
Conference
at
Belgrade,
and
the
commentaries
dating
from
1978
and
1981
by,
respectively,
’radic
and
Petkovic
on
&dquo;Non-alignment’s
role
in
today’s
world&dquo;
and
&dquo;The
Authentic
Principles
of
Non-alignment&dquo;.
There
are
a
few
problems
about
translation
from
the
French.
SEATO
is
called
OTASE
on
p.
279
and
it
is
odd
to
find
a
re-translation
back
into
English
of
the
Communiqu6
of
the
1947
Asian
Relations
Conference.
Another
irritant
is
the
fact
that
the
date
on
which
certain
pieces
were
written
is
sometimes
not
indicated
(e.g.
the
fascinating
account
of Arab
thinking
by
the
first
Secretary-General
of
the
Arab
League
is
only
identified
as
being
in
a
book
published
in
1970).
This
book
should
prove
extremely
useful
to
anyone
wanting
one
book
which
will
give
an
introduction
in
depth
to
Third
World
aspirations
and
the
different
ways
in
which
Third
World
commentators
see
themselves.
The
commentary
is
well
informed
and
accurate
(e.g.
on
the
significance
of
the
1979
non-aligned
Havana
Summit
and
of
the
non-aligned
Foreign
Ministers’ view
on
Afghanistan
in
1981)
unlike
many
reports
that
appear
in
the
Western
press.
The
book
covers
the
1983
non-aligned
Summit
at
New
Delhi
but,
despite
that
summit’s
relative
success,
ends
both
its
last
two
sections
on
a
questioning
note
by
discussing
the
limits
of
non-alignment
and
the
impasse
in
the
new
international
order.
It will
be
interesting
to
see
whether
a
1989
edition
of
this
work
which
would
have
to
include
an
account
of
the
recent
non-aligned
Summit
at
Harare
and
of
the
next
one
due
to
be
held
in
1989
is
even
more
questioning.
0
-Sally
Morphet
Europe,
America
and
the
World
Economy,
edited
by
Loukas
Tsoukalis.
Basil
Blackwell,
Oxford,
1986,
£25.00.
Europe,
America
and
the
World
Economy
is
a
collection
of
papers
first
given
at
the
1984
Bruges
colloquium.
They
are
here
presented
in
a
revised
form
and
in
a
very
much
grander
manner
than
earlier
Bruges
papers,
very
largely,
one
suspects,
because
of
the
efforts,
and
the
reputation,
of
the
editor.
Loukas
Tsoukalis.
It
is
an
exceedingly
interesting
and
timely
collection
even
if
in
some
respects
it
is
one
difficult
to
review
adequately.
The
interest
lies
in
the
fact
that
the
focus
is
very
much
on
the
economic
issues
in
Euro-American
relations
that
have
been
the
cause
of
conflict
and
dispute,
notably
protectionism,
the
US
dollar,
interest
rates
and
so
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