Law and Society. By L. C. Green. (Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff; Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1975. Pp. xviii, 502. Index. $28.00)
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 70, Heft 4, S. 893-893
ISSN: 2161-7953
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In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 70, Heft 4, S. 893-893
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: American political science review, Band 68, Heft 1, S. 357-358
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American political science review, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 687-687
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 422-423
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 238-239
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 232-234
ISSN: 2161-7953
In: India quarterly: a journal of international affairs, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 295-297
ISSN: 0975-2684
In: India quarterly: a journal of international affairs, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 291-292
ISSN: 0975-2684
In: India quarterly: a journal of international affairs, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 172-173
ISSN: 0975-2684
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 504-512
ISSN: 1086-3338
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 156-157
ISSN: 2052-465X
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 236-246
ISSN: 1086-3338
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 46-65
ISSN: 1086-3338
American foreign policy has recently become a favorite target-area for attacks upon an alleged moralizing and legalistic habit which ignores or condemns national interest. The criticism runs the whole gamut of our relations with the world outside, focusing with final virulence upon our effort to find peace in the United Nations. It covers most of the nation's history, tracing the decline from "realism" to moralistic fantasy back to the moment when the genius of the Federalists began to be corrupted by Jeffersonian sentimentalism. The vast complex of today's foreign relations furnishes innumerable points of assault. A folly of self-righteousness has led us—so the indictment reads—into tragic error in China, in Korea, in the Near and Middle East, even (though here some of the accusers desert) in Europe. We give quixotically where we should sell; but our purse-strings are tied with moral scruples where we should be lavish. Shrinking from the open use of power, we enter into wasteful and entangling alliances where we should keep a free hand. Crusading in the name of democracy and disregarding the limits of our resources, we undertake to assist peoples anywhere to establish free governments in the face of intervention from Moscow. We take up arms for the utopian aims of an international organization set up in postwar zeal for a new era and maintained at our expense. A course in this literature of calamity leaves us wondering how the nation has survived. It sounds like the dirge for a fallen empire.
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 5, S. 46-65
ISSN: 0043-8871
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 539-544
ISSN: 1086-3338
For the political scientist in America there can scarcely be a more fascinating or more elusive study than the Soviet Union. The first enticement is the menacing importance of Soviet power. Then there is the miracle which in a single generation has changed a defeated and disintegrating agrarian society into one of the two greatest industrial and military States of our day. But these are claims to everybody's attention. The peculiar challenge to the professional student of social phenomena is another matter. For him Russia now is an enormous but dimly lighted laboratory in which doctrine is tested by experience, where the strain between ideology and reality is carried to a pitch never previously attempted, where techniques are developed by which a small elite secures a steady ninety-nine per cent of formal acquiescence from a population of two hundred millions, where political and economic strength is accumulated by processes in which what we consider normal human reactions are choked off by fear or concealed in the trite responses of an authorized litany.