Reviews

John W. Burton, Global Conflict: The Domestic Sources of International Crisis. Wheatsheaf Books‐Harvester Press, 1984 (paperbacked edition 1987), pp. xiiv + 194. $27.95.

Michael Banks (ed.), Conflict in World Society: A New Perspective On International Relations. Wheatsheaf Books‐Harvester Press, 1984 (paperback edition 1987), pp xxi + 234. $29.95.

Adam Watson, Diplomacy: The Dialogue Between States. Methu‐en, London, 1984, pp. 239. $14.95.

David Steele, The Reform of the United Nations. Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1987, pp. 191. £22.50.

Brian Urquhart, The United Nations and International Law. The Rede Lecture, 1985. Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp.20. $10.50.

Christine Jennett and Randal G. Stewart (eds), Three Worlds of Inequality: Race, Class and Gender. Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1987, pp. x+395. $24.95.

Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Basil Black‐well, Oxford, 1986, pp. xviii + 312. $87.50. Paul Brass (ed.), Ethnic Groups and the State. Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1985, pp.341. £17.95.

Michael MccGwire, Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy. The Brookings Institution. Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. xiv + 530. $US18.95.

Mark Frankland, The Sixth Continent — Russia and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987, pp. x+292. $39.59.

Martin Gilbert, Shcharansky — Hero of Our Time, Penguin Books, Harmonsworth, 1987, pp. ix +467. $14.95.

Bundesinstitut fur ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Stu‐dien, Cologne, The Soviet Union 1982–83. Holmes and Meier, London, 1985, pp. xi + 392. No price given.

Arthur R. Day, East Bank/West Bank: Jordan and the Prospects for Peace. Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1986, pp. x + 166. $US17.5 (doth), $US8.95 (paper).

Michael Petit, Peacemakers at War — A Marine's Account of the Beirut Catastrophe. Faber and Faber, Boston, 1986, pp.229. $36.95.

Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo, Asian Security Annual Report 1986. RIPS/Brassey's Defence Publishers, London, 1986, viii + pp. 204. $77.00 (cloth), $38.50 (paper).

Economics & Pacific Security: The 1986 Pacific Symposium. National Defense University Press, Washington DC, 1987, xi + pp. 260. No price given.

Alan Rix, Coming to Terms. The Politics of Australia's Trade with Japan 1945–57. Allen & Unwin Australia, Sydney, 1986, pp.267. $29.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paper).

David Anderson, An Analysis of Japanese Coking Coal Procurement Policies: The Canadian and Australian Experience. Centre for Resources Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1987, pp. xvii + 222. No price given.

Phillip Darby, Three Faces of Imperialism: British and American Approaches to Asia and Africa 1870–1970. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, pp.vii + 267. $US22.50.

Neville and Yu‐Ying Brown, South Africa: Sanctions or Targetted Aid? Muirhead Foreign Policy Papers No 1, University of Birmingham, 1987, pp. 51. £3.50.

William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa, Basic Books, New York, 1986.

Jan Knippers Black, The Dominican Republic, Politics and Development in an Unsovereign Slate. Allen & Unwin, Boston, 1986, pp.xi+164. $27.95.

Glenyys Romanes, Eve Scarfe & John Scott‐Murphy: Central America. A Report from the ACFOA Fact Finding Mission to Guatemala, EL Salvador and Nicaragua, August‐September 1986. Australian Council for Overseas Aid, Canberra, 1987, pp.vi + 50. $5.00.

Edward Dommen and Philippe Hein (eds), States, Microstates and Islands. Croom Helm, London and Sydney, 1985, pp. 216. £19.95.

Commonwealth Secretariat, Vulnerability. Small States in the Global Society. Report of a Commonwealth Consultative Group. Commonwealth Secretariat, London, no date (1986?), pp. xii + 126. £5.00.

Te'o IJ. Fairbarin, Island Economies. Studies from the South Pacific. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1985, pp. xxi + 442. No price given.     

Book reviews

Barry Hindess, Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. 183 pp. $34.95 (paper).

David Beetham and Kevin Boyle, Introducing Democracy: 80 Questions and Answers. Cambridge: Polity Press/UNESCO, 1995. xiv + 135 pp. £10.95 (paper).

Jurgen Habermas (interviewed by Michael Haller), The Past as Future, translated and edited by Max Pensky. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994. xxvi + 185 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Jacob Bercovitch (ed.), Resolving International Conflicts: The Theory and Practice of Mediation. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1996. xiv + 279 pp. $US19.95 (paper).

Georgina Waylen, Gender in Third World Politics. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1996. xi + 163 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Larry Diamond, Juan J. Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset (eds), Politics in Developing Countries: Comparing Experiences with Democracy, 2nd edn. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 1995. viii + 592 pp. npg.

Stuart Woolf (ed.), Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present: A Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. vi + 215 pp. npg.

Michael Mandelbaum (ed.), Post‐Communism: Four Perspectives. New York: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1996. vi + 208 pp. npg.

Stelios Stavridis and Christopher Hill (eds), Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy: Western European Reactions to the Falklands Conflict. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1996. x + 202 pp. £34.95 (cloth), £14.95 (paper).

Ramesh Thakur (ed.), The United Nations at Fifty: Retrospect and Prospect. Dunedin: University of Otago Press and the Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1996. xvii + 334 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Emma Matanle, The UN Security Council: Prospects for Reform. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs Discussion Paper No. 62, 1995. vi + 70 pp. npg.

Ross Garnaut and Peter Drysdale (eds), Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Economic Relations. Sydney: Harper Educational Publishers, 1994. xviii + 433 pp. $39.95 (paper).

Russell Trood and Deborah McNamara (eds), The Asia‐Australia Survey 1995–96. Melbourne: Macmillan/Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Griffith University, 1995. xiv + 586 pp. $95.00 (cloth), $42.95 (paper).

Jim Rohwer, Asia Rising. London: Nicholas Brealey, 1996. 382 pp. $34.95 (cloth).

David Shambaugh (ed.), Greater China: The Next Superpower? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. ix + 310 pp. $44.95 (cloth).

Anne Blair, Lodge in Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. xv + 200 pp. $US25.00 (cloth).

David Mayers, The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv + 335 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Christopher Tremewan, The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore. London: Macmillan, 1994. xv + 252 pp. $88.00 (cloth).

John A. Larkin, Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. xvi + 337 pp. npg.

Hermann Joseph Hiery, The Neglected War: the German South Pacific and the Influence of World War 1. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. xvii + 387 pp. US$35.OO (cloth).

Anthony Milner (ed.), Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. xii + 300 pp. $26.95 (paper).

Lachlan Strahan, Australia's China, Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv + 374 pp. $34.95 (paper), $90.00 (cloth).

Graeme Cheeseman and Robert Bruce (eds), Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers: Australian Defence and Security Thinking after the Cold War. St Leonards: Allen and Unwin/Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1996. ix + 317 pp. $24.95 (paper).

John Spoehr and Ray Broomhill (eds), Altered States: The Impact of Free Market Policies on the Australian States. Adelaide: Centre for Labour Studies, University of Adelaide/Social Justice Research Foundation, 1995. 226 pp. npg (paper).     

Biography without history?

Kevin Perkins: Menzies: Last of the Queen's Men, Rigby, Adelaide, 1968, pp. 264, $5.50.     

Book reviews

Hans Granqvist: The Red Guard: A Report on Mao's Revolution, trans. Erik J. Friis, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 159 + ix, $5.95.

James A Maxwell: Commonwealth‐State Financial Relations in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp. 124 + ix, $5.00.

J. R. Flynn: American Politics: a Radical View, Blackwood and Janet Paul Limited, Auckland, 1967, pp. 255, $5.50.

Colin Mackerras and Neale Hunter: China Observed, 1964/1967, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 194, $4.95.

F. Alexander: Australia Since Federation, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 352, well illustrated, $4.95, $2.50 (paperback).

G. R. Elton: The Practice of History, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1967, pp. 178 + viii, $3.00.

A. Jones: Andrew Jones M.H.R. by Himself, Rigby Ltd., Adelaide, 1967, pp. 186, $0.95.

R. W. Connell and Florence Gould: Politics of The Extreme Right, Sydney Studies in Politics, No. 7, Sydney University Press, 1967, pp. 115, $2.50.

R. R. Walker: Communicators: People, Practices, Philosophies in Australian Advertising, Media, Marketing, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, 1967, pp. 416, $10.

Basil Mitchell: Law, Morality and Religion in a Secular Society, Oxford University Press, London, 1967, pp. 141 + vii, $4.25.