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Few reading this Journal would argue with the assertion that both the substance and the study of world politics are now characterized by a seemingly endless process of change. The proliferation of political issues, especially those labelled "post-industrial", and the recognition of transnational phenomena, among other factors, have greatly increased the number of problems considered 'legitimate' by the scholar and practitioner. Yet we have long been made aware of many of these problems by the remarkably prescient 'functional' writings of one man, David Mitrany. Whenever 'functionalism' is used in the context of world politics or regional integration the obligatory reference is to Mitrany's A Working Peace System and, until very recently, he continued to provide the intellectual force behind the approach. The books considered in this review offer description, application and criticism of functionalism from different perspectives and with different empirical references, but the central thread remains Mitrany's conceptualization of the approach.

"The present chapter analyses Samuel Pufendorf's understanding of the international legal order and how it was shaped by his reflections on topics that are conventionally distinguished from international law in academic study, namely religious toleration and theology. The first and second sections examine the post-Westphalian system in the Holy Roman Empire and the importance of keeping the promises made between states. The third section takes up the theological dimension of Pufendorf's thinking in Jus feciale divinum (1695) and the covenant or federal theology it involves. Parallels are consequently drawn between Pufendorf's arguments on covenants with treaties in international law. The concluding section studies these aspects in further detail and shows the extent to which Pufendorf's conception of international law reflects the pattern of his theology"--

How the first US president after the Soviet Union's collapse will be remembered overseas, and strategic challenges for his successors; 5 articles. Contents: Clinton's world: purpose, policy, and Weltanschauung, by Josef Joffe; The eye of the transitional storm, by Shahram Chubin; Legacy to the world's poorest nations, by Michael Chege; The Asian legacy in focus, by Frank Ching; As Clinton leaves the ring, by Yasuhiro Nakasone.