Review: International Economics: The Politics of International Shipping
| Published date | 01 December 1974 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207402900413 |
| Date | 01 December 1974 |
| Author | John Harbron |
| Subject Matter | Review |
656
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
socialist
and
capitalist
approaches
to economic
development.
The
contribution
of
Ukpabi
Asika,
administrator
of
the
East
Central
State,
is
interesting
in
a
quite
different
way.
Mr
Asika's
state
embraced
at
the
time
the
steadily
contracting perimeter
of
the
'Re-
public
of Biafra,'
proclaimed
by
the
secessionists
in
1967.
It
was
appropriate,
therefore,
that
his
paper
dealt
with
rehabilitation
and
resettlement.
He
makes
a thoughtful
analysis
of
the problems
to
be
faced
and
the
needs
to
be
met,
starting
with
some
observations
about
historical
facts
and
coming
down
to
quite
specific
calculations
of the
millions
of
yam
seedlings
required
to
rehabilitate
agriculture
in the
war
areas.
The
Nigerian
Second
National
Development
Plan,
which
the
con-
ference
at
Ibadan helped to
formulate
in
1969,
has
just
completed
its
fourth
and
final year
and
a
Third
Plan
is
in the
making.
This
book
has
historical
value
to
those
interested in
recent
Nigerian
history,
practical
value
to
those
seeking
to
judge
the
success
of
Nigeria's
economic
and
social
policies,
and
a
great
deal
of
interest
to
anyone
concerned
with
the
dilemmas
of
development.
A.S.
McGill/Department
of
External
Affairs
THE
POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL
SHIPPING
Conflict
and
Interaction
in
a
Transnational
Issue-Area
1946-1968
Olav Knudsen
Lexington,
Mass:
Toronto:
D.C.
Heath,
1973,
xxiv,
221pp,
$12.50
This
book
should
have
been
called
'The
Statistics
of
International
Shipping,'
for
its
content
is
unintelligible,
except
to the
reader
with
an academic
understanding
of
statistical
method.
Moreover,
the
book
is
waterlogged
with
jargon.
We
read
about
'systemic conflict,'
that
'the
actual
measure
[of
it]
operationalized
as
the
percentage
of
con-
flict
actions
in the
total
volume
of
interaction
for
each
period
is
shown
in
Table
5-4,'
and
so
forth.
One
searches
in vain
for
major
assessments
of
the
relationships
between
the
highly-cartelized
international
shipping
industry
and
the
political
crises
which
have
affected
it
between
1946
and
1968.
A
book
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