Arms for Africa: Military Assistance and Foreign Policy in the Developing World by Bruce E.ArlinghausReview by: Andrew J. PierreForeign Affairs, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Spring, 1983), pp. 973-974Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20041571 .

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The coming months are certain to bring to a head the critical debate over

NATO's decision to deploy new intermediate nuclear forces in Europe. This

comprehensive study, by experts and officials drawn together by the Arms Control Association at the request of NATO, provides an excellent and useful

survey of the myriad political and military issues.

A POLICY FOR PEACE. By Field Marshal Lord Carver. London: Faber and

Faber, 1982, 128 pp. (New York: Harper, distributor, $9.95; paper, $4.95). Lord Carver, former Chief of the Defence Staff in the U.K., has written a

brief, thoughtful, and probing essay on the nuclear dilemma. He is unafraid, by his own admission, of being out of step with Whitehall orthodoxy. Thus Carver advises against Britain's purchase of Trident missiles and favors a reduction in NATO's dependence upon nuclear weapons.

NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS: REASSESSING ARMS CONTROL GOALS IN U.S.-SOVIET RELATIONS. Edited by Alan F. Neidle. Austin (Tex.):

Lyndon B.Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1982, 166 pp. These proceedings of a conference in February 1982 at the Lyndon B.Johnson

School of Public Affairs are far better than average. A dozen highly knowledge able speakers returned to basics in discussing, in a sophisticated manner, various

aspects of the role of nuclear weapons in world politics.

U.S. DEFENSE PLANNING: A CRITIQUE. By John M. Collins. Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press, 1983, 337

pp. $30.00 (paper, $11.95). Written by a highly respected specialist of the Congressional Research Service

at the request of five members of Congress, some of whom are active in the

military reform caucus, this review of how defense policy is made is disappointing. The work is too formal in its examination of bureaucratic structures, paying

insufficient attention to the role of more informal, more political processes.

TOWARD A CONSENSUS ON MILITARY SERVICE. Edited by Andrew J. Goodpaster, Lloyd H. Elliott and J. Allan Hovey, Jr. Elmsford (N.Y.): Pergamon Press, 1982, 322 pp. $32.50 (paper, $13.95).

This report of the Atlantic Council Working Group on Military Service concludes that President Reagan should prepare the country for the probable resumption of the draft during the 1980s. Particularly valuable are the support ing studies by experts, which are detailed and contain a number of specific policy

prescriptions.

MILITARIZATION AND ARMS PRODUCTION. Edited by Helena Tuomi and Raimo Vayrynen. New York: St. Martin's, 1983, 310 pp. $30.00.

A collection of essays which share a common assumption: that military ex

penditures and arms imports by the less developed countries retard rather than

help the development process. Emile Benoit's assertion that they assist economic

growth is convincingly refuted. The concurrent view, that the arms suppliers export weapons because of their own overcapacity, remains more debatable. A valuable contribution to a debate which could benefit from being expanded to a wider audience.

ARMS FOR AFRICA: MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND FOREIGN POLICY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. Edited by Bruce E. Arlinghaus. Lexington (Mass.): Lexington Books, 1983, 232 pp. $26.95.

This book adds to our knowledge of a much neglected subject at a time when

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the transfer of arms to sub-Saharan Africa is increasing. The authors believe that the primary suppliers of arms to Africa, the Soviet Union and France, will continue to dominate, but that new Third World suppliers and other Europeans

will increase their market share. Most African countries will continue to buy arms on credit and the suppliers will sell while maintaining unproven assumptions about the "leverage" to be thus acquired.

NUCLEAR POWER IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. By Daniel Poneman. Winchester (Mass.): Allen & Unwin, 1982, 254 pp. $27.50.

An intelligent analysis of the relationship between the spread of nuclear power and its potential consequences for nuclear weapons development. The cases

chosen for study?Argentina, Iran and Indonesia?are of special interest. The

specificity of analysis and the author's technical competence place this book above many others on this topic.

General: Economie and Social

William Dieboldyjr. THE USE OF PUBLIC POWER. By Andrew Shonfield. New York: Oxford

University Press, 1983, 133 pp. $19.95. To the three chapters of the major new work on the future of industrial

democracies which were left upon Sir Andrew Shonfield's death in 1981, his wife has added a fourth outlining the scope and themes of the rest of the intended

book. The challenge was to see what 15 fairly troubled years had done to the

basically confident findings of Shonfield's landmark book of 1965, Modern

Capitalism. The extent of breakdown of economic management by democratic

governments is analyzed. Shonfield firmly rejects the arguments for greatly

curtailing the government's role in the economy: the welfare state is here to stay, and the long-run problem is how to ensure that public institutions serve the

public interest and not that of temporary majorities. The international economy and Japan have much more prominence here than in the earlier work. As in all his writings, there are telling insights, stimulating ideas and controversial prop ositions, so that even in its truncated form the book is a very valuable one.

THE MAKING OF THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM. By Peter Ludlow. Woburn (Mass.): Butterworths, 1982, 319 pp. $34.95.

This major contribution to the history of West European integration recounts

in remarkable detail the play-by-play negotiations that created the European

Monetary System. Many of these were secret and quite a few were outside usual

channels. So it is not surprising that Mr. Ludlow, a British historian who has

worked for years on European issues, should not have learned quite everything, but he has made good and lively use of a great deal of inside information. The

background, the false starts, the American angle, the worries of the IMF, the

divergent views of parties and bureaucracies are well laid out and analyzed. As

in so much of the history of European integration, internal politics are as

important as international factors and personalities sometimes seem to explain more than does economics.

U.S. INTERNATIONAL MONETARY POLICY. By John S. Odell. Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 1982, 385 pp. $35.00 (paper, $8.95). This excellent book does two things exceptionally well. First, it assembles and

adds to the evidence about three major episodes in American international

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