Review: International: Law of the Sea
| Author | Edgar Gold |
| Published date | 01 June 1974 |
| Date | 01 June 1974 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070207402900217 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
294
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
The
gloomiest
essayist
is
Bayless
Manning
whose
subject
is
'The
Legal
Framework in
a
World
of Change.'
He
sorrowfully
declares,
t
propos the
United
Nations,
that
'when
we
compare
the
same
world
as
it
existed
in
1919
and
1969
it
is
as
if
at
some
ancient university
Black
Power
and
the Students
for
a
Democratic
Society
had
taken
control
of
the
campus.'
Sir
Herbert
Butterfield
deals magisterially
with
'Morality
and
International
Order.'
He
doubts
if
the
'human
predica-
ment'
would
be
greatly
or
enduringly
altered
even
if Russia
and
communism
were
to
disappear
entirely.
He
is
unhappy about
western
nuclear
strategy
and
argues
that
'the
whole
idea
points
ultimately
to
a
self-righteousness
which
has
been
institutionalized and
organized
and
which
represents one
of
the
biggest breaches
that
our
world
is
making
with
Christianity.'
Limitations
of
space
prevent
me
from dealing
adequately
with
Professor
Hinsley's
book,
Nationalism
and
the
International
System.
It
is
a
tour
de
force
in
that
it
deals
in
only
172
pages
with
how
na-
tionalism,
'the
most
fundamental
of
all
political
issues'
has
developed
and
made
so
profound
an
impact
upon
the
international
system.
Unobtrusive
learning
colours a sequence
of
wide-ranging
judgments
which
move
from
clearing
up
misconceptions
of
what
Kant
and
Bentham
really
thought
of
the
prospects
for
world
peace
through
the
difficulties
of
both
the
League
of
Nations
and
the
United
Nations
to
describing
a
new
discontent
which
has
succeeded
nationalist
or
revolutionary
unrest and
is
ascribed to
'the
growing
centralisation
and
standardisation
of
life
and
the
increasing
remoteness of
the state.'
There
is
an
excellent
bibliography.
F.H.
Soward/University of
British Columbia
LAW
OF
THE
SEA
Oceanic Resources
Erin
Bain
Jones
Dallas:
Southern
Methodist University
Press,
1972,
xiv,
16
2pp,
$7.95
The
current
debate
on
the
law of
the
sea,
particularly
concerning
oceanic
resources,
is
becoming
more
and
more
heated
as
the
third
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