Review: United States: Defining the National Interest
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300217 |
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
book
is
likely
to
be
used
and
re-used
Canada
that
outline
rather than
in years
to
come
as
a
guide
to
the
explain
the
failure
of
the Canadian
making
of
United
States foreign
peace
movement
to
carry
its
pro-
policy
under
one
of
that
country's gramme
into
mainstream
politics,
more
unusual
presidents.
In
com-
and
sometimes the
author's
asser-
posing her book
Fischer
has
relied
tions
(for
example
that
Lester Pear-
on
a
minimum
of
the
leaden
jargon son changed
front
on
nuclear
with which
political
scientists
cloak
weapons
after
'a trip
to
the
United
their
thoughts;
in
her
next
book
we
States
to
confer
with
US
govern-
hope
she
will
abandon
it
altogether.
ment
officials')
are
dubious.
It
This
is
not
merely
a
book
to
be
should
be
emphasized
that
this
is
a
read;
it
is
a
book
that
can
be
read.
political
history
of
a
comprehensive
but
rather
old-fashioned
type,
the
RESISTING
THE
BOMB
sayings
and
doings
of
the
leaders
of
A
history
of
the
world
nuclear
the
'peace
movement.'
disarmament
movement,
But
what
made
it
a
movement,
or
1954-1970
why
movements
of
this
kind
rise
Lawrence
S.
Witmer
and
fall
on
the
fringes
of
politics,
is
Stanford
CA:
Stanford
University
Press
left
unexplained,
except
in
the ter-
1997,
xi,
632
pp,
US$60.00
cloth,
minology
of
high
politics.
Gazing
US$24.95
paper
upon Wittner's
monument,
one
can
safely say
that
most
of
the
building
This
is
everything
you
ever
wanted
materials
are
here,
many
of
the
to
know
about
the
anti-nuclear
highest quality,
but
the
architecture
movement
but
were afraid
to
ask.
is,
regrettably,
humdrum.
Based
on
a
truly
extraordinary
and
admirable
amount
of
research,
con-
DEFINING
THE
NATIONAL INTEREST
ducted
from
Johannesburg
to
Conflict
and
change
in American
Hamilton,
Ontario,
to
West
Branch,
foreign policy
Iowa,
and
places
in
between,
this Peter
Trubowitz
book
is
an
encyclopxdia
of
nuclear
Chicago, University
of
Chicago
Press,
politics from
the
era
of
Massive
1998,
xvi,
353,
US$55.00
cloth,
Retaliation
down
to
Mutual
Assured
US$18.95
paper
Destruction.
Naturally
it
is
a
labour
of
love,
and Witmer's
sympathies
are
Ordinarily
a
book
with
a
title like
apparent,
but
his
view
of
the
peace
Defining
the
National
Interest,
with
movement
is
not
blind
to
its
faults
a
portentous
and yawn-inducing
and
peculiarities,
subtitle,
would merit
no
more
than
There
are several
sections on
a
thud
on
the
pile
of
worthy
acade-
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JOURNAL
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1998
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