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REVOLUTION IN CHINA: By C. P. FitzGerald. (The Cresset Press, London). 1952, pp. 290.

SOUTHWARD FROM CHINA: By Woodrow Wyatt. London, Hodder and Houghton. 1952.     

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THE CHANGING COMMONWEALTH. Edited by F. H. Soward. Issued under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Oxford University Press, Toronto, 195O. xiv + 268 pp. Appendices and Index.

WAR AND CIVILIZATION. Selected by Albert Vann Fowler from A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee. London and New York, Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1951. xii + 165 pp. 10/6 stg.     

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OVERSEA SETTLEMENT: MIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO THE DOMINIONS. By G. F. Plant. (Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Oxford University Press, 1951. pp. 186).

WELLS OF POWER. By Olaf Caroe. (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London. pp. 240 including index).     

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THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD HISTORY. By John B. Rae and Thomas H. D. Mahoney. xv+831 pages. (McGraw Hill Book Co., Inc., New‐York, 1949).

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE AGE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND DICTAORSHP. By R. Strausz‐Hupé and Stefan T. Possony. xiv+947 pages. (McGraw‐Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1950.)

ISLAMIC SOCIETY AND THE WEST, by H. A. R. Gibb and Harold Bowen. Vol. I. Islamic Society in the Eighteenth Century, Part I. Oxford University Press. Published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, pp. xi—313—53 (Appendices)—20 (Indices).

AMERICAN‐RUSSIAN RELATIONS IN THE FAR EAST. By Pauline Tompkins. (Macmillan, New York, 1949. pp. XIV, 426. Maps and bibliography. $5.00).

THE LEFT WING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. By Virginia Thompson & Richard Adloff (I.P.R.) (William Sloane Associates, New York. $4.00. pp. 298, map, illustrations).

MANCHURIA SINCE 1931. By F. C. Jones. (Oxford University Press, 1949).     

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THE ADAPTABLE COMMONWEALTH. F. H. Soward, 1950 (London, O.U.P., pp. 62). 2/‐.

EUROPE IN DECAY: A STUDY IN DISINTEGRATION 1936–1940. By L. B. Namier. 1950. (London. MacMillan, viii+330. 16s.).

EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN MODERN GERMANY. R. H. Samuel and R. H. Thomas. Routledge and Kegan Paul (Int. Lib. of Soc. & Soc. Recon.). London 1949.

THE IDEA OF CONFLICT. By Kurt Singer. (Melbourne University Press. pp. 181).     

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THL PHILIPPINES AND THE UNITED STATES: By Garel A. Grunder and William E. Livezey. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press. 1951, pp. xi + 315.

POPULATION BULLETIN, No. 1, December, 1951. United Nations (Department of Social Affairs, Population Division). (U.N. Publications ST/SOA/Ser. N/1), pp. iv + 57.

THE MISTAKEN LAND: By Michael Ardizzone. London, The Falcon Press, 1951.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: By K. C. Wheare. London. Oxford University Press, 1951. pp. 278.

CURRENT RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (March 1952), Pp. v + 194. 8¾” × 5¼”.     

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AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMAT. Alan Watt. Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0207–12354–3. 329 pp. $8.50.

AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR. W. R. Crocker. Sun Books, Melbourne, 1971. 211 pp. $1.95 paper.

THE POLITICS OF DEPENDENCE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1968. A. L. Epstein, R. S. Parker, Marie Reay (eds.). Australian National University Press, 1971. 0–424–06270–4. 398 pp. $8.95.

AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA. W. J. Hudson (ed.). Sydney University Press, 1971. 0–7081–0188–7. 198 pp. $6.50 hard cover, $4.00 paper.

AUSTRALIA IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: NATIONAL DEFENCE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Ian Bellany. Sydney University Press, 1972. 0424063107. 144 pp. $6.00.

THE CRISIS OF LOYALTY: A STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY. Bruce Grant. Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0–207–12472, 0–207–12423‐X. 107 pp. $3.25 hard cover, $2.50 paper.

THE AUSTRALIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1968–1969. H. B. Connell (ed.). Butterworth (Australia), 1971. 409–3940–9. 244 pp. $12.50.

KENT HUGHES. A BIOGRAPHY. Frederick Howard. The Macmillan Company of Australia, Melbourne, 1972. 0–333–13909–7. 255 pp. $6.50.

THE MAKING OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. J. A. La Nauze. Melbourne University Press, 1972. 05–2284016–7. xi, 369 pp.

RICHARD BOURKE. Hazel King. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971. 312 pp. $10.95.

INDIA, PAKISTAN AND THE GREAT POWERS. William J. Barnds. Pall Mall Press, London, 1972. 269–67199–4. 388 pp. £4.25 (stg).

THE INDIAN OCEAN: TOWARDS A PEACE ZONE. Devendra Kaushik. Vikas, Delhi, 1972. 7069–0173–8. 225 pp. 24 Rupees.

INDIA, RUSSIA, CHINA AND BANGLA DESH. J. A. Naik. S. Chand & Co., New Delhi, 1972. 163 pp. 20 Rupees.

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN THE 1970s: THE ROLES OF THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Bruce Brown (ed.). Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1971. 0–7081–0087–2. 253 pp. $5.

THE ASIAN NEWSPAPERS’ RELUCTANT REVOLUTION. John A. Lent (ed.). Iowa State University Press, 1971. 08138–1335–3. 373 pp. $US12.50.

AN INTRODUCTION TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN POLITICS. J. R. E. Waddell John Wiley and Sons, Sydney, 1972. 0471–91301–4, 0471–91300–6. 305 pp. $6.50 hard cover, $4.50 paper.

THE INDONESIAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND LAND REFORM 1959–1965. Rex Mortimer. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, Number One, 1972. 78 pp. $1.50.

INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN MALAYA. PRELUDE TO THE COMMUNIST REVOLT OF 1948. Michael Stenson. Oxford University Press, London, 1970. 19–212957–0. 271 pp. $7.80.

NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Michael Leifer (ed.). Ag Zug, Switzerland, Inter Documentation Company, 1970. 175 pp. Swiss Fr. 28.50.

THE PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY OF SINGAPORE: EMERGENCE OF A DOMINANT PARTY SYSTEM. Thomas J. Bellows. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, New Haven, 1970. Distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. 195 pp. $US5.75.

THE INNOVATORS. THE ROLE OF FOREIGN TRAINED PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Mary C. Hodgkin. Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1972. 0424–063808. 118 pp. $3.00 Paper.

JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA IN THE SEVENTIES. J. A. A. stockwin (ed.). Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0–207–12395–0. 223 pp. $4.00 hard cover, $3.25 paper.

THE FEDERATION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Leo Marquard. Oxford University Press, 1971. 142 pp. £2 (stg.).

AMERICA THE DUTIFUL: AN ASSESSMENT OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. Philip W. Quigg. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1971. 223 pp. $6.95.     

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Michael Maclear, Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War. Thames Methuen, London, 1981, pp x + 368. $16.95

Peter King, (ed.), Australia's Vietnam. George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1983, pp. 226. $19.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paper).

Carlyle A. Thayer and David G. Marr, Vietnam since 1975 ‐Two views from Australia. Griffith University, CSAAR Paper No. 20, 1982, pp. $3.00

Walter Scott Dillard, Sixty Days To Peace: Implementing the Paris Peace Accords, Vietnam 1973. National Defence University, Washington, 1982, pp. xiv + 240. No price given.

Peter Pringle and James Spigelman, The Nuclear Barons Michael Joseph, London, 1982, pp. xii + 578. $25.00.

Daniel Frei, with the collaboration of Christian Catrina, Risks of Unintentional Nuclear War. Croom Helm, London, 1983, pp. xxxi + 255. $13.95.

Ian Clark, Limited Nuclear War. Martin Robertson and Company, Oxford, 1982, pp.266. £16.50.

Julie Dahlitz, Nuclear Arms Control with Effective International Agreements. McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1983, pp.238. $16.95.

G.A. Craig and A.L. George, Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1983, pp.xiv + 288. $33.95 (cloth), $16.99 (paper).

Michael Carver, A Policy For Peace. Faber and Faber, London, 1982, pp.123. $6.95.

Everett Mendelsohn, A Compassionate Peace: A Future For The Middle East. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1982, pp. xii + 226. $6.95.

Alison Broinowski (ed.), Understanding ASEAN. Macmillan (in association with AIIA), London, 1982, pp.xv + 323. $36.00 (cloth), $13.95 (paper).

Tunku Shamsul Bahrin, Chandran Jeshurun, A. Terry Rambo (eds.), A Colloquium on Southeast Asian Studies. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1981, pp. xvi + 319, S$35.00.

Alfred W. McCoy and Ed. C. de Jesus (eds.), Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations. Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City and George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1982, pp. ix + 479. 524.95 (cloth) $12.95 (paper).

Stephen R. Shalom, The United States and the Philippines: A Study of Neocolonialism. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1981, pp. xvii + 302. $19.50.

Karl J. Pelzer, Planters Against Peasants: The Agrarian Struggle in East Sumatra 1947–58 Martinus Nijhoff ‘S‐Gravenhage, 1982, pp. xvii + 186. No price given.

TAPOL, West Papua: The Obliteration of a People. TAPOL, London, 1983, pp. 114. £2.50

R. Mitton, The Lost World of Irian Jaya. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1983. pp. ix + 235. $50.00.

Radha Sinha, Japan's Options for the 1980s. Croom Helm, London and Canberra, 1982, pp. 269. $27.50

Wang Gungwu, Community and Nation, essays on Southeast Asia and the Chinese. Heinemann Educational Books (Asia), Singapore, and George Allen & Unwin Sydney for Asian Studies Association of Australia, 1981, pp. 292. $24.94 (cloth), $12.95 (paper).

B. Male, Revolutionary Afghanistan. Croom Helm, London and Canberra, 1982, pp. 229. £13.95.

Edward Mortimer, Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam. Faber and Faber, London, 1982, pp. 432. $16.95.

Julius W. Pratt, Vincent P. De Santis, Joseph M. Siracusa, A History of United States Foreign Policy. 4th edition. Prentice‐Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., U.S.A., 1980, pp. xvi + 553. $US 18.95.

John Cartwright, Political Leadership in Africa. Croom Helm, London and Canberra, and St. Martin's Press, New York, 1983, pp. 310. $26.75.

Greg Crough and Ted Wheelwright, Australia: A Client State. Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood, 1982, pp. 255. $7.95.

Altro Polo. The Frederick May Foundation for Italian Studies, University of Sydney, annual. $10.00

The Scottish Government Yearbook. The Unit for the Study of Scottish Government, University of Edinburgh, annual. £10.00 (cloth) £5.95 (paperback).     

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WAR AND THE MINDS OF MEN: By Frederick S. Dunn. Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper Bros., N.Y.

HOW CANADA FACES A NEW WORLD: A History of Canadian External Relations. By G. P. de T. Glazebrook. Oxford University Press.

THE BRITISH YEAR BOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1949. Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute, of International Affairs. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. 569 pp., including Table of Cases and Index.

CENTRAL AND SOUTH‐EAST EUROPE, 1945–1948. Edited by R. R. Betts, Masaryk Professor of Central European History in the University of London, Royal Institute of International Affairs. (Oxford University Press, pp. viii 227, index and maps).     

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Book reviews in this article: International Relations theory The logic of violence in civil war. By Stathis N. Kalyvas . The Oxford handbook of contextual political analysis. Edited by Robert E. Goodin and Charles H. Tilly . The Oxford handbook of political theory. Edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips . International law and organization Terrorism and the state: rethinking the rules of state responsibility. By Tal Becker . Humanitarian intervention. Edited by Terry Nardin and Melissa S. Williams . Managing the challenges of WTO participation: 45 case studies. Edited by Peter Gallagher, Patrick Low and Andrew L. Stoler . Between peril and promise: the politics of international law. By J. Martin Rochester . Promoting the rule of law abroad: in search of knowledge. Edited by Thomas Carothers . Foreign policy Deterring America: rogue states and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. By Derek Smith . Bush and Asia: America's evolving relations with East Asia. Edited by Mark Beeson . Old Europe, new Europe and the US: renegotiating transatlantic security in the post 9/11 era. Edited by Tom Lansford and Blagovest Tashev . Conflict, security and armed forces Cobra II: the inside story of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. By Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor . Fiasco: the American military adventure in Iraq. By Thomas E. Ricks . Preventive attack and weapons of mass destruction: a comparative historical analysis. By Lyle J. Goldstein . In the name of terrorism: presidents on political violence in the post‐World War II era. By Carol K. Winkler . Politics, democracy and social affairs Corruption: anthropological perspectives. Edited by Dieter Haller and Cris Shore . Cambiare regime. La sinistra e gli ultimi 45 dittatori. By Christian Rocca . Political economy, economics and development How we compete: what companies around the world are doing to make it in today's global economy. By Suzanne Berger. Ethnicity and cultural politics Islamic imperialism: a history. By Efraim Karsh . The Kurds in Turkey: EU accession and human rights. By Kerim Yildiz . History The ends of British imperialism: the scramble for empire, Suez and decolonization. By Wm Roger Louis . Among the dead cities: was the Allied bombing of civilians in WWII a necessity or a crime? By A. C. Grayling . Total Cold War: Eisenhower's secret propaganda battle at home and abroad. By Kenneth Osgood . Congress and the Cold War. By Robert David Johnson . Europe The will to survive: a history of Hungary. By Bryan Cartledge . Russia and Eurasia Revolution in orange: the origins of Ukraine's democratic breakthrough. Edited by Anders Åslund and Michael McFaul . Middle East and North Africa Confronting Iran. By Ali M. Ansari . Syria and Iran: diplomatic alliance and power politics in the Middle East. By Jubin Goodarzi . Islam, democracy and the state in Algeria: lessons for the Western Mediterranean and beyond. Edited by Michael Bonner, Megan Reif and Mark Tessler . Sub‐Saharan Africa Thabo Mbeki and the battle for the sould of the ANC. By William Mervin Gumede . The other side of history: an anecdotal reflection on political transition in South Africa. By Frederik van Zyl Slabbert . Asia and Pacific Bangladesh: the next Afghanistan? By Hiranmay Karlekar . North America State of war: the secret history of the CIA and the Bush administration. By James Risen . The United States and right‐wing dictatorships. By David F. Schmitz . Latin America and Caribbean When states kill: Latin America, the US and technologies of terror. Edited by Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez . Contesting citizenship in Latin America: the rise of indigenous movements and the postliberal challenge. By Deborah J. Yashar .     

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THE STRASBOURG FLAN, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 1952.

THE JAPANESE DISCOVERY OF EUROPE: HONDA TOSHIAKI AND OTHER DISCOVERERS 1720–1798, by Donald Keene. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1952. Pp. IX + 246. III. Price 21/‐.     

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THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD AFFAIRS 1949. By Richard P. Stebbins and the Research Staff of the Council of Foreign Relations. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1950.

CONDITIONS OF ECONOMIC PROGRESS. By Colin Clark. 2nd Edition. London, Macmillan, 1951. xvi ‐J‐ 584 pp. 50/‐ stg.

INDIAN‐AMERICAN RELATIONS. Proceedings of the India‐America Conference held in New Delhi in December 1949. Issued under the joint auspices of the Indian Council of World Affairs and the American Institute of Pacific Relations. Oxford University Press. v + 79 pp.

THE STATE OF ASIA: A Contemporary Survey. By Lawrence K. Rosinger and Associates. Issued under the auspices of the American Institute of Pacific Relations. Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. 512 pp. Bibliography and index.

UNITED KINGDOM ADMINISTRATION AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS: A Report by a Study Group of the Institute of Public Administration. R.I.I.A., 1951. 55 pp. 4/‐.     

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Book reviewed in this issue. International Relations theory Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg. By Christopher Coker . Visions of world community. By Jens Bartelson . Rethinking world politics: a theory of transnational neopluralism. By Philip G. Cerny . Intenational law, human rights and ethics The limits of ethics in International Relations: natural law, natural rights, and human rights in transition. By David Boucher . The fog of law: pragmatism, security and international law. By Michael J. Glennon . Just war on terror? A Christian and Muslim response. Edited by David Fisher and Brian Wicker . International organization and foreign policy Deadlocks in multilateral negotiations: causes and solutions. Edited by Amrita Narlikar . A history of diplomacy. By Jeremy Black . The secret state: preparing for the worst, 1945–2010. By Peter Hennessy . The ultimate weapon is no weapon: human security and the new rules of war and peace. By Shannon D. Beebe and Mary Kaldor . The problem of force: grappling with the global battlefield. By Simon W. Murden . Governance, civil society and cultural politics Apart: alienated and engaged Muslims in the West. By Justin Gest . Political economy, economics and development Capital ideas: the IMF and the rise of financial liberalization. By Jeffrey M. Chwieroth . History M16: the history of the Secret Intelligence Service, 1909–1949. By Keith Jeffery . Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. David Killingray with Martin Plaut . Red plenty: inside the fifties’ Soviet dream. By Francis Spufford . Peru and the United States, 1960–1975: how their ambassadors managed foreign relations in a turbulent era. By Richard J. Walter . Europe In search of the Balkan recovery: the political and economic reemergence of SouthEastern Europe. By Christopher Cviic and Peter Sanfey . Russia and Eurasia Nationalist imaginings on the Russian past: Anatolii Fomenko and the rise of alternative history in post‐communist Russia. By Konstantin Sheiko with Stephen Brown . The new nobility: the restoration of Russia's security state and the enduring legacy of the KGB. By Andrey Soldatov and Irina Borogan . Persian dreams: Moscow and Tehran since the fall of the Shah. By John W. Parker . Middle East and North Africa Meccanomics: the march of the new Muslim middle class. By Vali Nasr . Invisible war: the United States and the Iraq sanctions. By Joy Gordon . Islam and peacemaking in the Middle East. By Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said . Sub‐Saharan Africa Blood on the stone: greed, corruption and war in the global diamond trade. By Ian Smillie . From blood diamonds to the Kimberley Process: how NGOs cleaned up the global diamond industry. By Franziska Bieri . Famine and foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid. By Peter Gill . The Ethiopian Revolution: war in the Horn of Africa. By Gebru Tareke . Zimbabwe's exodus: crisis, migration, survival. Edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera . Ending apartheid. By J. E. Spence and David Welsh . South Asia The most dangerous place: Pakistan's lawless frontier. By Imtiaz Gul . The Afghanistan‐Pakistan theater: militant Islam, security and stability. Edited by Daveed Gartenstein‐Ross and Clifford May . Seeds of terror: how heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. By Gretchen Peters . Opium: uncovering the politics of the poppy. By Pierre‐Arnaud Chouvy . North America Washington rules: America's path to permanent war. By Andrew J. Bacevich . Advancing democracy abroad: why we should and how we can. By Michael McFaul . The survival and the success of liberty: a democracy agenda for U.S. foreign policy. By Morton H. Halperin and Michael Hochman Fuchs . Latin America and Caribbean Evo Morales: the extraordinary rise of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. By Martin Sivak . Amexica: war along the borderline. By Ed Vulliamy . Mexico: narco‐violence and a failed state? By George W. Grayson . Cuba: what everyone needs to know. By Julia E. Sweig .