Review: Scotland's Voice in International Affairs
| Author | Alexander Craig |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070208403900316 |
| Published date | 01 September 1984 |
| Date | 01 September 1984 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
REVIEWS
689
describe
the
failure
of
the two
economic
giants
to
co-ordinate
their
economic policies.
The
even
greater
contradiction
of
macro-eco-
nomic
policy
under
Reagan
has
permitted
the
high
dollar
and
low
yen to
accelerate
the
flood
of
even
cheaper
Japanese
exports
which
worsens
current
trade
friction.
The
Japanese
and
North
American authors
originally
reported
separately
on
their
respective
countries'
policy-making
to the
Japan-
United
States
Economic
Relations
Group
which
advised
the
Ameri-
can
president
and
Japanese
prime
minister
in
January
1981
on
ways
to
improve
relations
and
reduce
economic
frictions. Unfortunately,
the
excellent
advice
of
the
Group,
called the
'Wise
men,'
has
failed
to
improve
the
situation
significantly,
but
the
rewritten
reports
clearly
set
out
the
way
business
interests
systematically
inflame
congressmen
and
even
administration
officials
against
foreign
exporters,
as
well
as
the
way
Japanese
officials
have
met
those
challenges,
some
of
which
Canada
is
currently
engaged
with. The
book
is
a
valuable
record
presented
in
a
comparatively
neutral
manner.
Frank
Langdon/University
of
British
Columbia
SCOTLAND'S
VOICE
IN
INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS
The
overseas
representation
of
Scottish
interests
with
special
reference
to
the
European Economic
Community
Edited
by
Clive
Archer
and
John
Main
Montreal:
McGill-Queen's
University
Press,
198o,
viii, 136
pp,
$19.95
As
in
Quebec,
separatism,
or
at
least
a
strong
drive
for
a
different
re-
lationship
with
the
central government,
will
remain a
force in
politics
in
Scotland
for
quite
some
time
to come.
Large
parts
of
the
nationalist
movement in
both
countries/regions
are
confident
they'll
be
strong
again
soon:
in
Scotland
there's
considerable resentment
at
the
way,
to
use
the
words
of
Winnie
Ewing,
the
Scottish
Nationalist
who
is
now
Euro-MP
in
Strasbourg
for
the
Highlands
and
Islands,
'Britannia
waived
the rules'
-
backbenchers
in
the
House
of
Commons
made
Callaghan's
government
change
the
devolution
referendum
legisla-
tion.
(More
than
5
0
per cent
of
those
who voted wanted
devolution,
but
they
did
not
make
up
the
required
40
per
cent
of
the electorate.)
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