Book Reviews : The Soviets in International Organizations. By ALVIN Z. RUBINSTEIN. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1964. Pp.xx,380. $7.50.)
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296401700458 |
| Published date | 01 December 1964 |
| Author | Louis Wasserman |
| Date | 01 December 1964 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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the
reader
with
the
feeling
that
most
of
this
has
been
heard
before
-
that
the
chal-
lenges
of
the
next
ten
years
are
the
products
of
the
failures
of
the
past
decade.
The
reader
may
conclude,
too,
that
analysis
of
these
challenges
has
not
been
appreciably
sharpened;
certainly
few
guidelines
for
responding
to
these
challenges
are
indicated.
University
of
California,
Davis
CLYDE
E.
JACOBS
View
from
the
Seventh
Floor.
By
W.
W.
ROSTOW.
(New
York,
Evanston,
and
Lon-
don:
Harper
and
Row,
1964.
Pp. xi, 178.
$4.00.)
According
to
W. W.
Rostow,
when
he
moved
in
December
1961
from
the
White
House
staff
to
the
position
of
chairman
of
the
Policy
Planning
Council
in
the
Depart-
ment
of
State,
Secretary
Rusk
suggested
that
he
should
accept
as
part
of
his
responsi-
bilities
the
task
of
explaining
America’s
foreign
policy
to
the
general
public,
with
particular
emphasis
on
the
relation
of
the
parts
to
the
whole.
Mr. Rostow
undertook
to
discharge
his
responsibilities
in
this
regard
by
a
series
of
talks
and
articles
which
have
been
collected,
apparently
with
very
minor
editing,
and
published
under
the
title
View
from
the
Seventh
Floor.
Both
the
merits
and
the
weaknesses
of
the
book
may
be
accounted
for
by
this
background.
In
a
little
more
than
one
hundred
and
fifty
pages
the
book
is
surprisingly
com-
prehensive
in
its
coverage
of
elements
of
American
foreign
policy
and
it
is
eminently
readable.
The
treatment
of
issues
is
simple
and
the
over-all
effect
is
that
of
a
position
paper
explaining
that
the
United
States
Department
of
State
has
never
made
a
mis-
take
and
American
foreign
policy
has
been
and
remains
a
catalogue
of
high
purposes
and
noble
aims.
Those
familiar
with Rostow’s
earlier
important
works
will
find
nothing
new
here.
It
is
entirely
understandable
that
anyone
who
devotes
his
talents
to
the
making
and
execution
of
high
policy
in
a
free
political
system
may
be
required
on
occasion
to
be
an
advocate,
an
apologist,
a
polemicist,
but
is
it
wise
for
a
respected
and
creative
scholar
to
publish
-
in
hard
cover
-
these
lesser
works?
Perhaps
the
contribution
to
the
enlightenment
of
those
average
voters
who
read
the
book
answers
the
question,
but
critics
of
the
Kennedy-Johnson
administration,
and
even
many
supporters,
may
well
feel
otherwise.
NED
V.
JOY
San
Diego
State
College
The
Soviets
in
International
Organizations.
By
ALVIN
Z.
RUBINSTEIN.
(Princeton:
Princeton
University
Press.
1964.
Pp.xx,380.
$7.50.)
Rubinstein
looks
briefly
into
the
background
of
Stalinist
diplomacy
in
the
UN
from
1945
on,
then
proceeds
to
deal
in
measured
detail
with
the
changed
behavior
of
the Soviet
Union
toward
international
organizations
during
the
decade
which
followed
the
turning
point
in
1953.
He
supplements
this
with
two
chapters
which
treat
of
Soviet
ideology
and
attitudes
respecting
the
United
Nations,
then
closes
with
a
series
of
proposals
designed
to
strengthen
the
position
of
the
West
and
to
raise
the
level
of
international
cooperation
in
the
future.
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