Review: International Law and Organization: Cooperation among Nations
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209104600408 |
| Date | 01 December 1991 |
| Author | L.W. Pauly |
| Published date | 01 December 1991 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
722
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
charged
with
distilling
a
common
interest
consistent
with
commonly
accepted principles
out
of
a
situation
of
conflicting
particular
interests?3
In
the
preface
to
the
revised
edition
of
Conference
Diplomacy,
Kauf-
mann
writes
of
the
198os:
'confidence
in
multilateral
organizations
and
in
conference diplomacy
has
distinctly
declined'
(p
xx).
Yet
one
is
tempted
to
revise
thatjudgment
now,
only
two
momentous
years
later.
Indeed,
a key
question
now'
must
be
whether
conference diplomacy
will
be
able
to
cope
with
the
scope
and
salience
of
the
issues
that
are
coming
before
it.
In
facing
this
challenge,
Kaufmann's
work
is
a
help
to
the
practising
diplomat,
the
scholarly
analyst,
and
the
members
of
the
attentive
public
who
need
to
understand better
where
we
now
are
and
where
we
could
be
going
in
the
process
of
global
and
regional
decision-making.
Robert
W.
Cox/York
University
3
On
the
mediaeval
concept,
see
Garrett
Mattingly,
Renaissance
Diplomacy
(Penguin
1973).
Hedley
Bull,
in
his
The
Anarchical
Society
(New
York:
Columbia
University
Press
1977),
speculated
that
a
possible
form
of
future
world
order
was
a
'new
medievalism.'
Such
a
speculation
goes
beyond
the
cautious
pragmatism
of
Kaufmann's
work.
COOPERATION
AMONG
NATIONS
Europe,
America,
and
Non-Tariff
Barriers
to
Trade
Joseph
M.
Grieco
Ithaca
NV:
Cornell
University
Press,
1990,
Xii,
255pp,
US$
39 .9 5
cloth,
US$13.
9 5
paper
On
the
basis
of
an
impressive assessment
of the
results
of
the
codes
on
non-tariff barriers
negotiated
during
the
Tokyo
Round
of
trade
negotiations,
Joseph
Grieco
argues
in
this
provocative
book
that
neo-
liberal
institutionalist
approaches
to
the
problem
of
inter-state
co-
operation
are
inadequate.
Moreover,
he
claims
that
a
traditional
realist
approach
offers
a
more
robust
alternative,
even
when
applied
to eco-
nomic
issue-areas,
the
supposed
heartland
of
neo-liberalism.
At
the
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