Review: International: World Society, the United Nations, the Evolving United Nations: A Prospect for Peace?
| Author | R.W. Cox |
| Published date | 01 March 1973 |
| Date | 01 March 1973 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070207302800111 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS
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between
regionalism
and
universalism
is
rather
silly
since
we
are
likely
to
have
both
as
well
as
neither in
the
future.
More
important,
the
'futures'
analysis
of
chapter
6
largely
ignores
social-structural
and
attitudinal
changes
within
countries
which are more
likely
to
affect
the
future
than
the grand
systemic
variables
that
Nye
dwells
upon.
Then
too,
for
all
of
its
strength,
Nye's
theoretical modelling
bypasses
the
origins
of
international
co-operation
in
regional
settings,
and
his
empir-
ical
analyses of
regionalism
and
conflict
are
limited
to
violent
or
near
violent
cases
to
the
exclusion
of
a
possibly
enlightening
range
of
other
kinds
of
international
disagreement.
On
balance,
Peace
in
Parts
is
a
unique
and
welcome
contribution
to
the
literature
on
regionalism.
Its
strengths
surely
outweigh
its
weak-
nesses.
We
would
hope
that
Nye's
themes
stimulate interest
among
other
researchers
and
we
would
hope
too
that
his
scholarship
prompts
emulation.
D.
Puchala/Columbia
University
WORLD
SOCIETY
How
is
an
effective
and
desirable
world
order
possible?
A
Symposium
Edited
by
B.
Landheer,
J.H.M.M.
Loenen,
Fred
L.
Polak
The
Hague:
Martinus
Nijhoff,
1971,
vi,
2llpp,
27.-guilders
THE
UNITED NATIONS:
THE
NEXT
TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS
Twentieth Report
of
the
Commission
to
Study
the
Organization
of
Peace
Louis
B.
Sohn,
chairman
Dobbs Ferry,
NY:
Oceana
Publications,
1970,
xvi,
263pp,
$8.oo
THE
EVOLVING
UNITED
NATIONS:
A
PROSPECT
FOR
PEACE?
Edited
by
Kenneth
J.
Twitchett
London:
Europa
Publications,
1971,
xvi,
239pp,
cloth
$6.50,
paper
$3.50
These
three
books
are
concerned
with
the
problems
of
world
order
and
the
potentialities
of
international
organizations.
The United
Nations:
the
Next
Twenty-Five
Years
is
a
report
of
the
Commission
to
Study
the
Organization
of
Peace, a
private
American
body
supported
by
several
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