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BOOK REVIEWS 295 Propaganda and World Public Order. The Legal Regulation of the Ideological Instrument of Coercion. By B. S. MURTY, NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1968. 310 pp. The actual and potential role of international law in the overall process of interstate relations has been a continuing subject of con troversy among jurists and diplomats alike. Professor Murty deals with this important question in so far as it relates to the ideological policies pUrsued by States. The great import of Murty's treaties is that, though essentially a legal study, it incorporates some of the more valuable insights offered by various other disciplines. The first two chapters present in fact a basis for the analysis of the whole field of international politics, the major premise being that the behaviour of States is directed towards the maximization of internal values, with "security" clearly heading the list of priorities. The author then proceeds to a detailed examination of the communication process itself, that is to say, that aspect of the interaction between States which occurs when words, gestures or their equivalents are exchanged between ruling elites. The How of communication between States is analysed in terms of the decisions of their
The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1970
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