Book Reviews : The Dynamics of International Relations: Power, Security and Order. By FRED GREENE. (New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Pp. xvi, 733. $8.00.)

• Author: George V. Wolfe
• Published date: 01 December 1964
• Date: 01 December 1964
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296401700436
• Subject Matter: Articles

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is constituency, like group, more than a category of shared characteristics? Does it
not also include the concept of communication? Regardless of the indicated prob-
lems, this study is an interesting and needed foray into a very significant area of legis-
lative behavior.
CHARLES G. BELL
California State College, Fullerton
The Dynamics of International Relations: Power, Security and Order. By FRED
GREENE. (New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964. Pp. xvi, 733. $8.00.)
The book is obviously intended as an undergraduate text in the field of interna-
tional politics. Though it contains sections -
such as those on &dquo;Military Considera-
tions of Foreign Policy&dquo; or on &dquo;Nationalism and Imperialism&dquo; -
which the under-
graduate student will read with benefit, certain aspects of the text considerably
diminish its value.
The author informs us in the preface that he intends &dquo;to depend very heavily
upon historical materials to supply the bases, illustrations and tests of the analytical
effort that grows from this foundation.&dquo; Yet he does not achieve an integration that
would demonstrate to the reader the famous dictum of Sir John R. Seeley in his
Introduction to Political Science ( 1896) that history is the root and political science
is the fruit. For example, it is quite impossible for the undergraduate student, or even
his instructor, to find the answers to the fourteen political questions listed on pages
63-64 from the ensuing historical chapters, as the author exhorts him to do. More-
over, too much space -
perhaps 40 per cent of the text -
is given to an outline of
western political history and current events while certain basic concepts with which
the beginning student in international politics should be made familiar receive in-
sufficient analysis or clarification. In vain will the reader look for a discussion of the
concept of collective security, and having read the chapter on &dquo;The Sovereign State,&dquo;
he will still...