Book reviews

Semnan: Persian City and Region. Edited by John Connell. University College London Expedition to Iran, 1969. 105 pp., photographs, maps. No price indicated.     

Reviews

DEFEATING COMMUNIST INSURGENCY: EXPERIENCES FROM MALAYA AND VIETNAM. Sir Robert Thompson. Chatto & Windus, 1966. Pp. 171. $3.60.

THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT'S ECONOMIC SYSTEM. FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE TO SOCIALISM 1952–1965. P. O'Brien. Oxford University Press for R.I.I.A., 1936. Pp xviii + 354. $8.55.

SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS AND RELIGION. Donald E. Smith (editor). Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. 563. $15.00 (U.S.).

THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN ASIA. A STUDY OF ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. Lalita Prasad Singh. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1966. Pp. xiii + 271. $7.00 (U.S.).

THE ORIGINS OF MALAY NATIONALISM. W. R. Roff. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2. Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, University of Malaya Press; New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1967. Pp. 297. $10 (Malaysian).

UNITED NATIONS PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — HIGHER CONDUCT. Major General J. J. Rikye. Paris, International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 17. $U.S. 1.00.

SOME PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — A GUIDE FOR SENIOR OFFICERS. Brigadier A. J. Wilson. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 12. $U.S. 1.00.

MILITARY STAFFING AT U.N. HEADQUARTERS FOR PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — A PROPOSAL. Lt. Col. L. M. K. Stern. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 14. ?U.S. 1.00.

THE SWEDISH U.N. STAND‐BY FORCE AND EXPERIENCE. Colonel Nils Stenqvist. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 18. ?U.S. 1.00.

RESEARCH ON PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE NEEDS. Albert Legaiult. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 57. $U.S. 1.00.

PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Prepared by Albert Legault. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 203. $U.S. 5.00.

KEEPING THE PEACE. Lt. Col. R. B. Tackaberry. Toronto, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, September 1966. Pp. 26. 35c.

BRITAIN'S WITHDRAWAL FROM ASIA. ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA. T. B. Millar (ed.). ANU, 1967. Pp. 114. $2.10. . THE CONCEPT OF A PACIFIC COMMUNITY. National Catholic Rural Movement, 1967. Pp. 79. $0.50.

CHANGING AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN ASIA. J. F. Cairns. Melbourne University. Democratic Socialist Club, 1967. Pp. 8. $0.15.

AUSTRALIA FACES SOUTHEAST ASIA. THE EMERGENCE OF A FOREIGN POLICY. Awry and Mary Belle Vandenbosch. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967. Pp. vi + 175. $5.75 (U.S.).

WHY VIETNAM? Frank N. Trager. Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. 238. $5.85.     

The world-systems perspective and archaeology: Forward into the past

This article reviews previous attempts to extend world-system theory from the modern era to prehistoric and archaeological settings. It summarizes major debates among scholars from several disciplines who are comparing the modern world-system with earlier world-systems. Special attention centers on the problems of conceptualizing world-systems, the spatial bounding of world-systems, and understandings of systemic logics.     

EURATOM,ENEA und die nationale Kernenergiepolitik in Deutschland

EURATOM was created by politicians who put the advancement of European integration above all other goals. However, the science and energy policies of the individual member states were still largely conceived within a national framework. After its official establishment, EURATOM began to develop a life of its own. Significant conflicts arose between national and EURATOM interests as the records of the German Foreign Office and the German Ministry of Atomic Energy demonstrate. German scientists, engineers and business leaders preferred the more liberal approach to the development of nuclear energy taken by OEEC and its affiliate, the European Nuclear Energy Agency ENEA. In conjunction with the IAEA in Vienna, however, EURATOM performed a particularly useful service in helping to control the proliferation of fissionable material.     

SOCIAL SEGREGATION IN ATHENS

This paper deals with changes in the Athenian social structure, mainly in its geographical organization, between 1971 and 1981. These changes are identified by clustering all communities in the Athens region on the basis of socio-professional location quotients and then examining socio-professional ratio changes in the resulting clusters. A process of social segregation is found to be well under way although, during the same period, the Athenian social structure tended to depolarize (middle class increase). Explanatory hypotheses are formulated on the basis of industrial stagnation, tertiarization, public sector employment, housing and urban practices and policies as well as urban congestion and air pollution. Finally, a link is attempted with more recent developments and tendencies.