Review: International: The Aberystwyth Papers, Nationalism and the International System
| Published date | 01 June 1974 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207402900216 |
| Author | F.H. Soward |
| Date | 01 June 1974 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
292
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
pen
to
coincide'
(p
9o)?
And
it
appears
equally
obvious
that
self-
sufficient
agricultural
states
will
be
least
susceptible
to
economic
sanctions
(p
0oo).
In
short,
a
useful
handbook
but
hardly
a
profound
treatise.
Alan
Cassels/McMaster
University
THE
ABERYSTWYTH
PAPERS
International
Politics
1919-1969
Edited
by
Brian Porter
London:
Toronto:
Oxford
University
Press,
1972,
x,
39opp,
$16.25
NATIONALISM
AND
THE
INTERNATIONAL
SYSTEM
F.H. Hinsley
Dobbs Ferry,
NY:
Oceana,
1973,
192pp,
$7.50
After
reading
The
Aberystwyth
Papers
I
was
reminded
by
their
oc-
casional clouds
of
inspissated
gloom
of
a
sentence
in the
Anglican
general
confession:
'We
have
left
undone
those
things
we
ought
to
have
done
and
we
have
done
those
things
we
ought
not
to
have
done
...'
Seventeen
scholars
contributed
to
this
unique
symposium,
one
Frenchman,
two
Australians,
four
Americans,
and
ten Englishmen.
They
were asked
to
combine
in
a
celebration
of
the
fiftieth
anniversary
of
the
founding
in
1919
of
the
Woodrow
Wilson
Chair
of
Interna-
tional
Politics,
the
first
of
its
kind
in
the
world,
at,
the
University
College
of
Wales.
Lord
Davies
and
his
two sisters
who endowed
the
chair
were
to
be
disappointed
in
its
achievements
as
the
sprightly
appendix
on the
holders
of
the
chair
indicates
but
they established
a
valuable
precedent.
At
the
anniversary
celebration
a
distinguished
audience
commented
upon
seven
of
the
papers
that
had
been
com-
missioned for this
volume.
The
remaining
essays
were
completed
shortly afterwards.
As
a
group
they
constitute
a
unique
collection
of
papers
which
no
student
of
international
politics
can
afford
to
neglect.
The
first
three
papers
are
concerned
with
the
growth
of
a
dis-
cipline (Wiliam
C.
Olsen)
and
the
theories
which
it
engendered
(Hedley
Bull
and
Arthur
Lee
Burns).
Three
members
of
the
college
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