Review: International Politics and Organization: Social Change, Charisma and International Behaviour
| Author | Timothy M. Shaw |
| Date | 01 September 1978 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207803300322 |
| Published date | 01 September 1978 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
AND
ORGANIZATION
649
different audience
made
up
of
advanced,
practising
researchers.
Un-
fortunately,
this
book
is
also
unlikely
to
be
of
much
interest
to
them.
And
they
do
not,
of
course,
need Sullivan's
appendix
or
his
other
attempts
at
simplification.
Among
students
of
the
causes
of war, those who
are
relatively
so-
phisticated
in the
use
of
quantitative
methods
might
better
skip
this
book,
and
go
directly
to
Dina
Zinnes's
Contemporary
Research
in
In-
ternational
Relations.
Teachers
may
find
some
usefulness
in
Sullivan's
various
bibliographical
references,
though
they
cover
only
material
published
before
1974.
Everyone
else
will
be
better
off
sticking
with
Kenneth
Waltz. On the
basis
of
Sullivan's
attempt,
we
can
be
sure
it
will
be
quite
a
while
yet
before
we
see
Son
of
Man,
the
State,
and
War.
Naomi
Black/York
University
SOCIAL
CHANGE,
CHARISMA
AND
INTERNATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR
Toward
a
Theory
of
Foreign
Policy-making
in
the
Third
World
Bahgat
Korany
Leiden:
A.W.
Sijthoff
&
Noordhoff
International
Publishers,
1976,
xxiv,
46
opp,
us$34.7
5
This
magnum opus
is
more
than
a
study
of
non-alignment
and
foreign
policy;
rather,
it
is
a
Third
World
view
of
international
relations
theory.
It
is
at
the
same
time
both
comprehensive
and
eclectic;
it
is
a
considerable
work of
scholarship
and
synthesis, yet
it
is
sometimes
turgid
and
trivial.
Further,
whilst
it
is
interdisciplinary
in
its
use
of
sociological
and
psychological
perspectives,
it
is
deficient
in
its
general
exclusion
of
economics.
It
is
also
somewhat
dated,
treating
non-
alignment
as
a
political
response
rather
than
as
an
economic
strategy.
Indeed,
power
politics
might
now be
revived
rather
than
reviled
as
in
this
text
because economic
conflict, especially
along
north-south
lines,
is
coming
to
dominate
world politics.
Although
this work
is
analytical
rather
than
theoretical,
it
does
introduce
several
useful
concepts
such
as
non-alignment
as
a
'subsys-
tem'
(p
15o)
and
the
'situation-role'
model
(p
73).
Dr
Korany
also
pre-
sents
a
history
of
the
evolution
in Egyptian
non-alignment
and
a
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