Shorter Notices
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206502000452 |
| Date | 01 December 1965 |
| Published date | 01 December 1965 |
| Subject Matter | Shorter Notices |
Shorter
Notices
THE
CONTROL
OF
THE
ARMS
RACE.
Disarmament
and
Arms
Control
in
the
Missile Age.
Second
Edition.
By
Hedley
Bull.
1965.
(New
York:
Frederick
A.
Praeger.
Toronto:
Burns
&
MacEachern.
xxxix,
235pp.
$7.25)
This
is
the
second
edition
of
a
book
which
is
widely
accepted
as
the
best
non-technical
study
of
the
problems
of
disarmament
and
arms
control.
Mr.
Bull
has
a
way
of cutting
through
the
jargon
to
get
at
the
issues.
Here,
he
has
added
two
new
chapters
to
his
earlier
work.
In
the
first,
he
assesses
the
significance
for
arms
control of
an
inter-
national
system
which
is
becoming
less
polarized.
He
argues
that
because
"arms
control
solutions
based
simply
upon
Soviet-American
agreement"
are
increasingly
irrelevant,
many
of
our
twenty-year-old
assumptions
must
be
abandoned.
The
other
new
section
examines
the
problem
of
sanctions.
Mr. Bull reminds
us
that
although
the
technical
matters
(such
as "inspection")
are
important,
they
may
lead
to
a
misguided
attempt
to
"persuade
ourselves,
or
others,
that
the
political
facts
can
be
circumvented."
One
has
only
to
read
some of
the
American
literature
to
appreciate
the
aptness
of his
warning.
[MICHAEL
SHERMAN]
BRITISH
POLITICAL
ISSUES.
By
E.
Liggett.
1965.
(London:
New
York:
Pergamon
Press.
Volume
I.
xxxviii,
232pp.
20/-.
Volume
II.
xlix,
335pp.
27/6-)
All
contemporary
commentators
on
British
politics
are
agreed
on
the
absence
of
fundamental
differences
in
the
programmes
of
the
three largest parties.
This
survey
of
the
policy
positions
taken
by
the
parties
and
the
important
factions
within
them
discloses,
however,
that
significant
and continuing
differences
still exist.
Volume
I
is divided
into
two
sections.
The
first
surveys
the
cur-
rent
political
scene
(April
1964)
and
the
short
term
strategic
position
of
the
parties.
The
second
section
summarises
current
debates
on
the
internal
structure
of
the parties, parliamentary
reform,
problems
of
administrative
law
and
the
operations
of
the
mass
media.
Volume
II
contains
studies
of
party
policies
on
major
questions
in
the
economic,
industrial,
social
welfare,
and
defence
fields.
There
is
only
a
limited
amount
of
material
on
foreign
affairs.
An
annotated
table
of contents
provides
an
excellent
guide
to
this
useful
reference
work.
[PETER
SIcox]
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