This volume, edited and annotated by Professor Jacobson, is a useful collection of essays, skillfully arranged under meaningful headings, and dealing with a variety of papers in the general field of foreign relations. In the forty-five essays which are here brought together in one volume, the reader finds a variety and depth of treatment that could hardly have been achieved by a single author.
Among the selections included are essays by such important figures in American foreign affairs as John Foster Dulles, Philip C. Jessup, Dean Acheson, George F. Kennan, Allen W. Dulles, and John F. Kennedy. Along with these are excerpts from the works of such eminent scholars as Quincy Wright, Hans Morgenthau, Arnold Wolfers, and others.
The maps showing the American security system, based on treaty arrangements; the NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in Europe; and the underdeveloped world are extremely useful.
As a book of readings, this volume can serve with equal purpose in courses on international relations, and American foreign policy.
