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The Management of Global Disorder: Prospects for Creative Problem Solving by Lincoln P. Bloomfield Review by: John C. Campbell Foreign Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Winter, 1988), pp. 173-174 Published by: Council on Foreign Relations Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043783 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 11:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Council on Foreign Relations is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Foreign Affairs. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 91.229.248.187 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:57:20 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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The Management of Global Disorder: Prospects for Creative Problem Solving by Lincoln P.BloomfieldReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Winter, 1988), pp. 173-174Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043783 .

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RECENT BOOKS ON INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS

Edited by Lucy Edwards Despard

General: Political and Legal

John C. Campbell

CITIZENS, PARTIES AND THE STATE. By Alan Ware. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988, 282 pp. $39.50.

Most of this carefully structured and sometimes original study is con

cerned with the role of parties in the pluralist politics of Western Europe and the United States and how they relate to the theory and practice of

democracy. The appraisal is clear and perceptive about the present, cautious as to the future. Some attention is paid to one-party states and to the

question of whether they can properly be called, or may become, demo cratic. The course of perestroika in the U.S.S.R. and of political evolution in Yugoslavia and elsewhere makes this a pertinent question, at least for further reappraisal at a later date; as of today the author is right in reaching a verdict of "not proven."

POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE THIRD WORLD. By Charles F. An drain. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988, 296 pp. $39.95 (paper, $16.95).

The author analyzes five countries?Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Nigeria and Iran?which have gone through political change, to discuss why and how it took place and what kind of new regime emerged, to make comparisons and to evaluate theory and practice. The five cases do not run parallel, the

interpretations are not beyond dispute, and the facts do not always fit the themes and the models. But there is no reason to quarrel with the conclusion that the "bureaucratic-authoritarian" system has proved the most successful in maintaining power in the Third World.

CHANGE AND STABILITY IN FOREIGN POLICY. By Kjell Goldmann. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988, 252 pp. $35.00.

The first part of the book takes wing into the realms of theory, with

particular attention to so-called stabilizers, factors making for stability in

foreign policy. Those interested in practice should read on into the later

chapters where the author reviews the period of d?tente in Soviet-American and Soviet-European (primarily West German) relations, applying his the ories and considering how things might have been different. He is modest in his claims, forswearing any comprehensive analysis of change in foreign

policy, East-West relations or the phenomenon of detente. But for students of any of these three topics he provides food for thought and discussion.

THE MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL DISORDER: PROSPECTS FOR CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING. Edited by Lincoln P. Bloomfield.

Washington: University Press of America/Minneapolis: Hubert H. Hum

phrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1987, 547 pp. Following the Aspen Institute model, the Hubert Humphrey Institute of

Public Affairs has put out a book of readings on international order and

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disorder, intended to widen the knowledge and sharpen the thinking of leaders in government, business and the professions. They cover the global

agenda of economic, legal and security problems, hardly digestible in one or two

sittings, and raise rather than answer

questions. But the selections

are well chosen and the editor's introduction helps manage the disorder.

THE PROMISE OF WORLD ORDER. By Richard Falk. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987, 332 pp. $29.95.

Richard Falk is disturbed over the sorry state of the world and the manifest inability of governments, particularly the one in Washington, to

do anything to save it. He seeks radical change through populist action

against militarism and nuclear weapons and through aid to Third World liberation struggles and support for human rights. The first step is to lift the curse of the bipartisan foreign policy consensus (since it is a cold-war

consensus) and the old ways of thinking. Readers of Falk's earlier works will recognize much of his argument, but the book stands up well as a

whole, presenting the thrust of his mature thought fully, logically and with

conviction, far from reality though some of it may be.

POWER AND TACTICS IN INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION: HOW WEAK NATIONS BARGAIN WITH STRONG NATIONS. By William Mark Habeeb. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1988, 168 pp. $25.00.

Three case studies?the Panama Canal treaties (1964-73), the accords on U.S. bases in Spain (1951-76), and the Anglo-Icelandic disputes over

fishing (1958-76)?show how weak nations can negotiate quite successfully with stronger ones. The key is the "issue power balance," not the overall structural balance, and the author shows how it works. The method can be

usefully applied to other past instances and holds lessons for future nego tiators.

UNITED NATIONS, DIVIDED WORLD. Edited by Adam Roberts and

Benedict Kingsbury. New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford, 1988, 287 pp. $59.00.

At a time when many long-standing international conflicts seem to be

winding down and prospects for the United Nations seem more promising, publication of these lectures, given at Oxford in 1986 when the organiza tion's fortunes were at a low point,

can help show the way to a more useful

role. The authors, all of whom speak from extensive personal experience and with full understanding of the U.N.'s limitations, include Secretary General Javier P?rez de Cu?llar, Sir Anthony Parsons, Maurice Bertrand

and Evan Luard.

SCIENCE BETWEEN THE SUPERPOWERS. By Yakov M. Rabkin. New

York: Priority Press, 1988, 119 pp. $8.95 (paper). A Twentieth Century Fund Paper.

This is a study of specific programs for the exchange of U.S and Soviet

scientists that have taken place within the framework of intergovernmental agreements and under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences

and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The study is thorough, objective and

sensible in its conclusions. Recognizing that the Soviet Union uses these

exchanges for the advancement of its own strategic objectives and not for

the general advancement of science, and that for the American side the

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