Review: International Organizations: The Politics of International Aviation
| Published date | 01 June 1992 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209204700212 |
| Author | Mark W. Zacher |
| Date | 01 June 1992 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
447
international
integration,
remains
so
important
in
the United
Kingdom.
The
volume
has
one
other
flaw.
The
concepts the editors
offer
to
help distinguish
different
types
of
co-operation
do
not
always
work
as
well
as
they
might.
Three
of
the
six
types
of
'adjustments
within
the
state
system'
(co-ordination,
co-operation
per
se,
harmonization,
asso-
ciation, parallel
national
action,
and supranationalism)
are
hard
to
distinguish.
Mihaly Simai,
whose
essay
on
the Council
for
Mutual
Eco-
nomic
Assistance
is
designed
to
illustrate
'co-operation
per
se'
even
begins
a
sentence:
'Efforts
for
the
harmonization
of economic
devel-
opment
with
the
help
of
plan
co-ordination
have
been
the
most
impor-
tant
features
and
basic
methods
of
co-operation
...
'
(p
49).
Similarly,
the
editors'
tripartite
distinction among
theories
that
involve
'adjust-
ments'
within
the state
system,
versus'refashioning'
the
system,
versus
,transcending the
state'
may
not
be
that
helpful;
most
regime theorists
would
be
surprised,
for
example,
to
find
that
their
ideas fall
into
the
third
category.
Nonetheless,
even
with
these
flaws,
Groom
and
Taylor
give us
as
comprehensive
and
clear
a
picture
of
current
theorizing
about
co-oper-
ation
through
international
institutions
as
can
be
found
in
one
voluime.
Let
us
hope this
picture
of
what
we
are
doing
spurs
us
to
try
to
do
better.
Craig
N.
Murphy/Wellesley
College
THE
POLITICS
OF
INTERNATIONAL
AVIATION
Eugene
Sochor
Iowa City:
University
of
Iowa
Press,
1991,
XX,
288pp,
US$36.oo
Eugene
Sochor worked
in
the
International
Civil
Aviation
Organization
(ICAO)
for
fifteen
years.
In
the
process
of
writing
this
book he
read
broadly
in
the
international
relations
literature,
and
he
inserts
obser-
vations
by
various
scholars
throughout
the
study.
However,
his
use
of
the
academic
literature
did
not
affect
the
overall
structure
of
his
anal-
ysis.
The
major
contribution
of
this
book
is
that
it provides
some
good
accounts
of
the
international
politics
surrounding
a
number
of
the
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