Book Reviews : Japan and the United States in World Trade. By WARREN S. HUNSBERGER. (New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Pp. xvii, 492. $9.95.)

• Date: 01 March 1966
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296601900133
• Published date: 01 March 1966
• Subject Matter: Articles

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son Institute analysts also receive careful attention. All these analysts &dquo;differ from
the forward strategists in trying to work on a year-by-year basis for their twin goals
of stability and freedom rather than trying to steer a long-range course toward the
elimination of Communism.&dquo;
The Realists (Hans Morganthau and Reinhold Niebuhr, for example) are
deterrers but &dquo;disagree with the forward strategists that there is a Communist mono-
lith ready to gobble us up, and they differ from the analysts in putting much less
faith in the stabilizing qualities of high levels of nuclear arms.&dquo; Morganthau seeks
a more muscled Liberalism, while Niebuhr wants a toughened Christianity. The
American Idealists, chiefly concerned with government, seek an extension of democ-
racy around the world and hope to limit the military expenditures to a minimum
just sufficient for deterrent efficiency. Its supporters place great emphasis on MLF
and aim to develop counter-insurgency plans for every developing country.
WHITAKER T. DEININGER
San Jose State College
Japan and the United States in World Trade. By WARREN S. HUNSBERGER. (New
York: Harper & Row, 1964. Pp. xvii, 492. $9.95.)
This is a detailed and up-to-date account of Japanese foreign trade. Hunsber-
ger divides his book into three parts: (1) Japan in the World Economy, where he
takes up the history of Japanese economic policy, international balance of payments,
and the import of capital and technology; (2) Japanese Commodity Trade, which
considers, in addition to exports and imports, the question of trade relations with
the U.S.; and (3) Policy Needs and Possibilities, both Japanese and American.
As this brief summary should indicate, the work is descriptive and oriented
toward policy problems, rather than toward model building and hypothesis testing.
For this reason it is particularly useful for political scientists who seek background
information about Japan’s economy and foreign trade, and are not...