Exercise of sovereignty

By:

Marshall, Charles Burton

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baltimore; Johns Hopkins Press; 1965Description: 282 pSubject(s):

International relation

DDC classification:

327.73 MAR

Summary: What does it mean for a nation to be sovereign today? This is the question that Charles Burton Marshall deals with in this book about the problems of conduct ing foreign policy in the present decade. He discusses the quest for sovereignty being made by states today, and explains that many new states will be hard pressed to fulfill in reality the sovereignty they have achieved in name. Political relations with the new states, particularly the for mation of alliances, also comes under Mr. Marshall's scrutiny. He considers the risks of sovereignty in this nuclear age, with special reference made to Cuba and China. The Cold War and the effects of a détente on the At lantic Alliance are also examined. History, says Mr. Marshall, is not some thing that takes care of mankind. The process works the other way around. In this volume Mr. Marshall examines some of the problems man faces in taking care of history today.

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What does it mean for a nation to be sovereign today? This is the question that Charles Burton Marshall deals with in this book about the problems of conduct ing foreign policy in the present decade.

He discusses the quest for sovereignty being made by states today, and explains that many new states will be hard pressed to fulfill in reality the sovereignty they have achieved in name. Political relations with the new states, particularly the for mation of alliances, also comes under Mr. Marshall's scrutiny.

He considers the risks of sovereignty in this nuclear age, with special reference made to Cuba and China. The Cold War and the effects of a détente on the At lantic Alliance are also examined.

History, says Mr. Marshall, is not some thing that takes care of mankind. The process works the other way around. In this volume Mr. Marshall examines some of the problems man faces in taking care of history today.

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