Review: LSE: Beyond Sovereignty
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209705200125 |
| Date | 01 March 1997 |
| Published date | 01 March 1997 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS/INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
181
ASIA-PACIFIC
SECURITY
Less
uncertainty,
new
opportunities?
Edited
by
Gary
Klintworth
New
York:
St
Martin's
Press,
1996,
xii,
3o8pp,
US$
4 9 .9 5
As
James
L.
Richardson
notes
in
this
volume's
opening
essay,
'Uncertainties
concerning
the
nature
of
the
emerging
international
order
are nowhere
greater
than
in the
vast
region
of
the
Asia-Pacific.'
He
builds
a case
for
cautious
optimism
about
the
future
security
of
the
region,
noting
that
it
would
take
a
high
degree
of
political
and
diplo-
matic
mismanagement
by
the region's
leaders
to
plunge
the
Asia-Pacific
into
major
conflict.
The
eighteen
chapters
that
follow
provide
a
contem-
porary
tour
d'horizon
of
the
Asia-Pacific
by
Australian scholars
that
gen-
erally
supports
Richardson's
analysis.
All
the
major
-
and minor
-
coun-
tries
of
the
region
are
surveyed.
There
are
also
interesting chapters
on
particular
issue
areas
(economic
co-operation,
transportation
networks,
arms
control
and
disarmament,
arms
spending,
regional
security
dia-
logues,
and
peackeeping).
The
chapters
are
accompanied
by
consider-
able
up-to-date
data
on
the
region.
The
package
is,
it
should
be
noted,
exceedingly
lean:
there
is
only
one
way
to squeeze
nineteen
chapters
into
a
3oo-page
book,
and
that
is
to
keep
the contributions
brief.
But
overall
the result
is
a
solid
and
useful
survey
for
those
seeking up-to-date
perspectives
on
the
Asia-Pacific.
BEYOND
SOVEREIGNTY
Collectively
defending
democracy
in
the
Americas
Edited
by
Tom
Farer
Baltimore:
Johns
Hopkins
University
Press,
1996,
xii,
41
6pp,
US$38.50
cloth,
US$19.
95
paper
This collection explores
how
external
actors
influenced the
process of
democratization
in
Latin
America
in
the
199os.
It
is
a
measure
of
how
much
our
thinking
about
sovereignty
has evolved
in
the
post-Cold
War
period that
the
involvement
of
the
international
community
in
the
domestic
politics
of
Latin
American
countries
should
be
presented
so
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