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Food is a tireless referent in international relations studies about China and its ties with the rest of the world. This paper addresses two contemporary issues. First, why is China so sensitive about grain self-sufficiency? Second, why does there seem to be a lack of effective dialogue between epistemic communities in China and outside over China's overseas agricultural activities? The first part of the paper reviews the development of China's agricultural sector and underlines the importance of China's contribution in stabilizing the world food markets. Next, it explores the ideational sources of Chinese food insecurity, in spite of its success in attaining high levels of self-sufficiency in grain. The third part of the paper reviews the evolution of China's overseas agricultural activities and analyzes the factors that contribute to a mismatch of understanding about the political implications therein. The paper concludes by proposing a couple of conceptual road maps for securitizing food as a referent in debates about China's security environment and Chinese international relations. (Pac Rev/GIGA)

"Feminist Ethics in International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.

An overview is provided on the literature of internat'l relations from 1965-1969, similar to the one provided in 1965 (see H. J. Morgenthau, 'International Relations, 1960-1964,' Annals, 1965, 360, Jul, 163-171). It is noted that the division of the field according to the 1965 scheme is still valid. The prognosis made in 1965 also bears repetition: systems analysis can be expected to decline, but new insights will illuminate foreign & military policy, taking into account the drastically changed internat'l environment. The decline of systems analysis is attested to not only by the paucity of relevant works but also by an increasingly outspoken critical literature.' The need for theoretical understanding of the internat'l role of the new nations has been met by a number of books, eg, Louis L. Snyder, THE NEW NATIONALISM, Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Press, 1968; Adam Watson, THE NATURE AND PROBLEMS OF THE THIRD WORLD, Claremont, Calif: Claremont U Center, 1968; etc. Stanely Hoffmann (GULLIVER'S TROUBLES, OR THE SETTING OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY, New York: NY, McGraw Hill, 1966) analyzes critically the whole range of Amer foreign policy. J. W. Fulbright (THE ARROGANCE OF POWER, New York, NY: Random House, 1966) systematically questions the US Vietnam policy from the pragmatic point of view of the wise use of power in a revolutionary world. Bernard Brodie (ESCALATION AND THE NUCLEAR OPTION, Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 1966) is among those who discuss the use of force in view of the availability of nuclear weapons. Richard A. Falk (LEGAL ORDER IN A VIOLENT WORLD, Princeton, NJ: Princeton U Press, 1968) explains the functions of internat'l law for world pol. Robert E. Osgood & Robert W. Tucker (FORCE, ORDER AND JUSTICE, Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins Press, 1967) present a traditionally oriented philosophic analysis of the basic concepts of internat'l pol. A total of 118 works are cited. M. Maxfield.

THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE POSSIBLITY OF GENERALIZING THE DEMILITARIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL RELATIONS AND EXTENDING IT TO THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN NATO AND THE WARSAW PACT IN EUROPE. THE IDEA, SHARED BY THE LEADERS OF BOTH FORCES, THAT NEITHER NATO OR THE WARSAW PACT COULD USE FORCE, IS, THE AUTHOR ASSERTS, ONE OF THE GREAT UNEXAMINED CLICHES OF OUR TIME. THE UNFORTUNATE CONSEQUENNCES OF THE IDEA THAT MILITARY EXPENDITURE AND DEPLOYMENTS CAN BE USED FOR POLITICAL ENDS IS ALSO DISCUSSED.

With the extension of the Exclusive Economic Zone, Mexico has been endowed with a tremendous oceanic potential. Although without any maritime history, the country embarked on the development of its marine biological resources ; an ailing ' 'agricultural revolution" was replaced by the , "blue revolution". An ambitious national plan for the development of its fisheries was set up; its implementation would improve the food supply situation, create thousands of jobs, increase exportations and, by turning out foreign fleets from its territorial waters, would also flatter Mexican nationalism. However, only part of these ambitions came to be. Lack of maritime know-how and a weak internal market have prevented Mexico from becoming free from external constraints. Although it has become an important producing country, yet it still remains dependent on the international market.