Review: The GDR
| DOI | 10.1177/002070208403900317 |
| Published date | 01 September 1984 |
| Author | Klaus Herrmann |
| Date | 01 September 1984 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
690
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
A
study
of
Scotland
in
international
affairs
is
thus
not
quite
as
aca-
demic
or
pass6
as
it
may
seem.
The
book
under
review
consists
of
an
introduction,
conclusion,
and
eight
papers
on
a
variety
of
topics,
ranging
from
fishing
to
oil,
agriculture
to
industrial
development,
local
government
to
institutional inter-action
in
Brussels.
These
chapters,
together
with
the
paper
and
appendix on
the
legal
aspects,
will
be
of
interest
to
anyone
concerned
with
studying
the
delimitation
of
powers,
and
theories
of
administration
and
representation
in
areas
where
jurisdictions
overlap.
The
book
has
a
few
explicit
Canadian references,
but
most
of
what
it
says
will
be
of
implicit
interest
to
Canadians.
Notjust
on
topics
such
as
sovereignty
and
its
international
legal
implications,
but
more
gen-
erally
on the
way
organizations
have
to
react
and
adapt
to
the ever-
growing
complexity
of
contemporary
politics.
In Western
Europe
this
is
compounded
by
the
way
in
which
political
bodies
and
interest
groups
alike have
had
to
deal
with
the
increasing
overlap
between
'do-
mestic'
and
'European' or 'international'
affairs.
The
conflict
within
the
European
Community
between
its
regional
and
competition
poli-
cies
is
also
examined
in
this
book.
Alexander
Craig/Lennoxville
THE
GDR
Moscow's
German
Ally
David
Childs
London
and
Winchester
MA:
Allen
&
Unwin,
1983,
xiv,
346pp,
Us$27.
50
cloth,
us$14.
5
o
paper
David
Childs
again
submits
a
text
and
reading
book
on
the
German
Democratic
Republic.
Among
the
very
best
published,
it
is
also
re-
quired
reading
for
those
who
reject
Childs'
pre-programmed
evalua-
tions
and
his
one-sided prejudices. For
example,
Childs
says
nothing
on the
significant national
revival
of
Sorbs
in
the
GDR,
although
he
notes
the
Sorb
antecedents
of
politbureauist,
Egon
Krenz
(misspelled
Grenz).
Wrongfully,
Childs
dismisses
a
flourishing
Catholic-Sorb
com-
munity
of
some
2o,ooo
as
'tiny'.
Why?
Childs' observations
on
Christian
religious
life in
the
GDR
are often
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