Review: International Relations: Rogue Regimes
| Date | 01 December 1998 |
| Published date | 01 December 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300421 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
lence
in
World
Politics:
A
Theory
of
answers
in
each
case.
Tanter
under-
Change
and
Continuity
(Princeton
scores
the
dangers
of
personalizing
1990)
inasmuch
as
it
is
an
antidote
conflict
when dealing
with
authori-
to those
who
believe
that
change
in
tarian
rulers
like
Saddam
Hussein
or
the
international
system at
the
end
Fidel
Castro.
In spite
of
growing
of
the cold
war
is
fundamental
and
disaffection
with
sanctions
as
an
realism
is
dead.
Those
recommend-
effective
instrument
of
containment
ing
this
book
to
their
students,
by
conservative
and
liberal
thinkers
however,
should caution
them
that
alike,
and
compelling
evidence
it
is
very
much
a
case
of'no
pain,
no
offered
in
this volume
that
they
gain.'
have
not
changed
the
behaviour
of
states
like
Cuba
or
North
Korea,
the
ROGUE
REGIMES
book
endorses
the
policies
of
retri-
Terrorism
and
proliferation
bution.
Even
so,
the
best
advice
for
Raymond
Tanter
dealing
with
one's
enemies
may
still
New
York:
St
Martin's
Press,
1998,
xiv,
be
that
offered
by
the
French
writer,
331pp,
US$29.95
Guy
de
Maupassant:
'J'embrasse
mon
enemi
pour
l'&ouffer.'
The
three
hot buttons
of
interna-
tional
politics
are
listed
in
the
A
STUDY OF
CRISIS
trendy
title
of
this
book.
As
demon-
Michael
Brecher
and
Jonathan
strated
by
President
Bill
Clinton's
Wilkenfeld
speech
before
the
United
Nations
Ann
Arbor:
University
of
Michigan
General
Assembly
on
21
September
Press,
1997,
108 8
pp,
US$115.00
1998,
policy-makers
in
Washington
and
other
world
capitals
are
fixated
This
is
surely
the
definitive
refer-
on
the
problem
of
terrorism
and
the
ence
book
on
international
crises.
It
proliferation
of
weapons
of
mass
contains
a
wealth
of
information,
destruction.
The
focus
of
this
book
carefully
gathered
and
assembled,
of
is
state-based terrorism,
and
it
con- major and
minor
international
tains
good
discussions
of
the
rather
crises
of
this
century.
Those
of
a
schizophrenic
policies
of
successive
quantitative
persuasion
will
be
United
States
administrations
plumbing
the
exhaustive
data
set
towards some
of
the
current
pariahs
assembled
by Professors Brecher
of
international
politics:
Iran, Iraq,
and
Wilkenfeld
for
years
to
come.
Libya,
Syria,
and
Cuba.
It
wrestles
The
descriptions
of
the
different
with
the
question
whether
the best
crises,
however,
will
also
be
useful to
strategy
is
one
of
containment
or
those whose
work
is
more
qualita-
engagement and
offers
qualified
tive.
The
statistical
analysis
provid-
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