Review: International: States in Evolution
| Date | 01 June 1975 |
| Author | Timothy M. Shaw |
| Published date | 01 June 1975 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207503000210 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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what
he
calls
a
'metatheory'
of
international
relations.
This
is
largely
restatement
of
earlier
essays
and
I
find,
for instance,
his
social
class
analysis
of
international
relations
theory
as
unconvincing
as
it
was
before.
Although
we
are
bound
to
agree
with him
that
both
'brute
empiricism'
and
'brute
theorizing'
must
be
done
to
death,
his
preferred
solution
of
'world
pluralism'
(linked
to
'multivariate
analysis')
is
not
helpful.
In
short,
Levi
gives
a
good
r~sum6
of
the
newer approaches
to
international
relations,
and
Haas provides
a series
of
bibliographies.
But
for
a
good
explanation
of
the
nature and
promises of
this
newer
work, I
would
refer
the
student
to
an earlier
work,
the
section on
Methods
in
A
Design
for
Political
Science:
Scope,
Objectives,
and
Methods
(James
C.
Charlesworth,
ed,
The
American
Academy
of
Political
and
Social
Science,
Philadelphia,
December
1966).
In
this
Karl
Deutsch
talks
sanely
and
humanely
about
the
relationship
of
theory,
methods,
and
policy.
He
encourages us
to
believe
that
the
behavioural approach
can
produce
better
than
Haas's
book.
Naomi
Black/York
University
STATES
IN EVOLUTION
Changing
Societies
and
Traditional
Systems
in World
Politics
George Liska
Baltimore:
Johns
Hopkins
[Toronto: Copp
Clark],
1973,
viii,
184pP,
$3.95
The
inequality
of
states
is
increasing;
Liska
reviews
the
impact
of
this
growing
diversity
on
relations between
the
superpowers
and
middle
powers.
He
suggests
that
the 'self-limitation'
of
Pax
americana
has
produced
a
new
international
hierarchy
in
which
a
few
intermediate
powers
dominate
regional
politics
in
the
interests
of
the
superpowers.
Although the
author's
style
is
tortuous
and
sometimes
contradictory,
his
work
is
of
interest
to
all
concerned
with
relations
between
unequal
states.
Dependence
is
perpetuated
because
superpower
withdrawal
may
be
more
apparent
than
real;
through
their
control
of
regional
powers
their
global interventive
capacity
is
maintained
by
proxy. Regional
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