Review: International: The other Powers, Problems of Mininations
| Date | 01 June 1975 |
| Author | Toivo Miljan |
| Published date | 01 June 1975 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207503000212 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/INTERNATIONAL
339
vide
an
overview
of
research
and
to
encourage
cumulative
discovery.
It
points
to
the underdevelopment
of
our understanding
of
foreign
policy
and
to
significant
gaps
in
analysis.
The
authors
modify
the
'pre-theories' framework
of
Rosenau
and
evaluate
work
on
each
variable.
Many of
the
propositions
abstracted
are
trivial
or
contradictory.
Most
of
the
studies
surveyed
are American
in
origin
or
focus;
there
are, for example,
no
references
either
to
analyses
of
Canadian
foreign
policy
or
to critical scholarship.
The
survey
scans
and
advocates
the
'scientific'
approach
to
international
politics;
it
examines only
a
selec-
tion
of
possible
explanations.
'Theories'
of
imperialism
and depend-
ence
might
explain,
for
instance,
Proposition
34:
'The
greater
a
nation's
power,
the
more
successful
it
is
in
foreign
policy'
(p
102).
Timothy
M.
Shaw/Dalhousie University
THE
OTHER
POWERS
Studies
in
the Foreign
Policies
of
Small States
Edited
by
R.P.
Barston
London:
George
Allen
&
Unwin
[Toronto:
Methuen],
1973,
341pp,
129.5o
PROBLEMS
OF
MININATIONS
Baltic
Perspectives
Edited
by
Arvids
Ziedonis,
Jr,
Rein
Taagepera,
Mardi
Valgemae
San
Jos6,
Calif.: Association
for the
Advancement
of
Baltic
Studies,
1973,
vi,
214pP,
$8.5o
cloth,
$3.95
paper
Although
membership
in
the
state
system
has
tripled
in
the
period
since
World
War
ii
this
fact
is
barely
beginning
to
be
recognized
by
students
of
international
relations.
The
dearth
of
literature
on
the
so-called
small
powers
is
glaring,
particularly in
view
of
the
fact
that
they
now
make
up
the majority
of
the
membership
in
the
state
system.
Of
the
155
extant
state
entities
81
or
52
per
cent
have
populations
ranging
from
7000
(Nauru)
to
5
million.
A
further
36
or
23
per
cent
have
populations
between
5
and
20
million.
At
the
other
end
of
the
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