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DYNAMICS OF WORLD POLITICS: STUDIES IN THE RESOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT. Linda B. Miller (ed.). Prentice‐Hall, 1968. Pp. viii + 294. $5.40.

THE UNITED NATIONS AND UNITED STATES SECURITY POLICY. Ruth B. Russell. The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1968. Pp. ix + 510. $10.00 (U.S.).

THE POLITICS OF PEACE‐KEEPING. Alan James. Studies in International Security: 12. Chatto & Windus, London, for The Institute for Strategic Studies, 1969. Pp. 452. £.3.3.0.

INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION CENTER ON PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS MONOGRAPHS NOS. 6–8. Paris, 1968. $1.00 each.

No. 6 CHARACTERISTICS AND SOME ASPECTS OF LAUNCHING U.N. PEACE‐KEEPING FORCES. Lieut.‐General P. S. Gyani. Pp. 13.

No. 7 PEACE‐KEEPING AND SELF‐DEFENCE. Dr Kjell Goldmann. Pp. 60.

No. 8 THE AUTHORIZATION OF PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS IN TERMS OF THE NATURE OF THE CONFLICT. Albert Legault. Pp. 62

CANADA AND THREE CRISES. Robert W. Reford. Toronto, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 1968. Pp. xii + 246. $5.00 (Canadian).

SYSTEMS, STATES, DIPLOMACY AND RULES. J. W. Burton. Cambridge University Press, 1968. Pp. xii + 251. $7 (U.S.).

GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY IN TRANSITION. BONN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST. Karl Kaiser. Issued under the joint auspices of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs, the Twentieth Century Fund's ‘Tocqueville Series’ and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. London, Oxford University Press, Oxford Paperbacks No. 159, 1968. Pp. x + 153. $2.00.

PEOPLE'S WAR. THE CONDITIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES IN CHINA AND IN SOUTH‐EAST ASIA. J. L. S. Girling. London, Allen and Unwin, 1969. Pp. 244. $6.65.

ASIAN CONTRACT LAW. David Allan (General Editor). Melbourne University Press, 1969. Pp. xiii + 237. $9.60.

MODERN FEDERALISM. G. F. Sawer. The New Thinker's Library, No. 29. London, C. A. Watts & Co., 1969. Pp. 204. 15/‐ (U.K.).     

Book reviews

Australian books

D. C. Dunphy, Cliques, Crowds and Gangs: Group Life of Sydney Adolescents, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 170 + xi, $4.50.

A. A. Congalton, Status and Prestige in Australia, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 160 + xvi, $7.50.

B. R. Davidson, Australia Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 264 + xiv, S3.60 (paperback), $6.60 (hard cover).

Brian Dickey (ed. and intro.), Politics in New South Wales 1856–1900, Problems in Australian History series, Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 200 + xv, $3.25.

K. L. Needham, Charles Hawker, Forlib Books, Adelaide, 1969, pp. 165 + xiv, $4.85.

Edward St. John, A Time to Speak, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 280, $1.65.

Egon F. Kunz, Blood and Gold: Hungarians in Australia, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 240, $7.50.

H. Throssell (ed.), Ethnic Minorities in Australia: The Welfare of Aborigines and Migrants, Australian Council of Social Service, Sydney, 1968, pp. 184 + viii, $3.75.

Marnie Bassett, Letters from New Guinea 1921, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 159 + x, $5.50.

Ken Turner, House of Review? The New South Wales Legislative Council, 1934–68, Sydney Studies in Politics, No. 8, Sydney University Press, 1969, pp. 164 + viii, $5.00.

Colin A. Hughes, Images and Issues: The Queensland State Elections of 1963 and 1966, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1969, pp. 364, $7.95.

Non‐Australian Books

Miles Copeland, The Came of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1969, pp. 272, $6.65.

Kenneth N. Waltz, Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience, Longmans, London, 1968, pp. 331 +xii, $4.70.     

Book reviews

City and Village in Iran: Settlement and Economy in the Kirman Basin. By Paul W. English. Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966. 204 pp. $6.75.

The Conflict of Traditionalism and Modernism in the Muslim Middle East. Edited with an Introduction by Carl Leiden. Austin: The University of Texas, 1966. 160 pp. $4.95.