Review: International: The International Law of Communications
| Author | T. Joseph Devine |
| Published date | 01 March 1973 |
| Date | 01 March 1973 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070207302800114 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
R.vEws
165
The
author
concludes
with
seven
recommendations
on
Swedish
foreign
aid
policy.
These
include
the
need
'to
make
the
Swedish
people
aware
of
the world
they
live
in and
the
global
society
that
is
emerging'
(p
67),
a more
active
role and
Swedish
parliamentary control
in
inter-
national
aid
policy-making,
as
well
as
the
usual
'people'-oriented
assertions
with
respect
to such
matters
as
birth
control.
The
detached
moralistic approach,
so
often
typical of
Swedish
government
policy,
is
somewhat
grating.
No
explanation
is
offered
as
to
how Sweden
can
make a
substantial
contribution
to
the
Mozambique freedom fighters
in
Tanzania
and
open
a
new
Volvo
assembly
plant
in
South
Africa
in
the
same year
(1969).
Edgar
S.
Efrat/University
of
Victoria
THE
INTERNATIONAL
LAW
OF COMMUNICATIONS
Edited
by
Edward
McWhinney
Leyden:
A.W.
Sijthoff
[New
York:
Oceana
Publications],
1971,
i7opp,
$7.50
The
generally
recognized need
for
new
approaches,
regulations,
and
regulatory
structures
to
meet
the
challenges
posed
by
the
recent
com-
munications
revolution,
in
particular
satellite
communication,
is
the
subject
of
this volume
of
eleven
essays.
Some
of
these
pieces
were
pre-
sented
to
a
special
colloquium
on
the
new
international
law
of
com-
munications
held at
the
Institute
of
Air
and
Space
Law
at
McGill
University in
May
197o
and
some were
specially
prepared
for
this
publication.
The
volume
may
be
of
interest
as
a
sampling
of
various
national
and
regional
approaches
to
the
numerous
relatively
new
problems
in
the
field
of
international
communications
law.
The
contributors
write
from
widely
divergent
viewpoints,
as
they
come
from
five
continents,
both
developed
and
developing
nations,
and
western
democratic
and
socialist
countries.
But
the
book
suffers
from
some
of
the
common
complaints
of such
compilations:
its
subject
matter and
aim
are
ill
defined.
The
result
is
something
of
a
hodgepodge,
some
essays
con-
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