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AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL LAW NATO: Issues and Prospects By HARALD VON RIEKHOFF, TORONTO, CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 1967, pp. x + 170. This is a well-balanced, no-nonsense, low-key survey of NATO's current problems by a Canadian born in Esthonia. It offers an unusual perspective in that it combines a very favourable view of NATO's achievement and its current political role (it promotes detente through its stabilizing effect on European relationships) with a projection that the alliance will none the less steadily decline in military and political significance as a consequence of the detente. Thus, although the author is scornful of Gaullist arguments, his conclusions are not far from the Gaullist view of the alliance's prospects. Is this perhaps a characteristically Canadian perspective? The author puts forward some arguments against the kind of reduction of Canada's contribution to NATO which has recently been announced by Mr. Trudeau, but they seem unlikely to be persuasive to Canadians, since they refer not to Canadian interests but to the possible harmful effects in Europe of a sudden Canadian withdrawal, and cut across the more prominent theme of the alliance's impending decline. Professor von RiekhofI leads up to these policy suggestions by briefly examining
The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1970
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