Recent Books on International Relations

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THE RAMPARTS WE GUARD. By R. M. MacIver. New York: Macmillan, 1950, 152 p. $3.00. Professor MacIver believes that before we can defend democracy we must know what it is. To that analytical and descriptive task he addresses himself in this read able little volume, in which he stresses the need to strengthen the defenses of the democratic way by removing its imperfections. PEACE ON EARTH. By Eleanor Roosevelt and Others. New York : Hermit age House, 1949, 251 p. $3.00. Various phases of the work of the United Nations discussed by Trygve Lie, Her bert Vere Evatt, Ralph J. Bunche, Mrs. Roosevelt and others. THE DESIGN OF DEMOCRACY. By Laurence Stapleton. New York: Ox ford University Press, 1949, 301 p. $4.00. What democracy is and how it works. PARTITI E SINDACATI NELLA CRISI DEL REGIME PARLAMENTARE. By Gaetano Mosca. Bari : Laterza, 1949, 337 p. L. 1000. Essays originally published by the Italian philosopher and historian over many years on a variety of political and historical subjects. THE PATTERN OF THE PAST: CAN WE DETERMINE IT? By Pieter Geyl and Others. Boston: Beacon Press, 1949, 130 p. $2.00. A three-way debate by two historians, Geyl of Utrecht and Arnold J. Toynbee, and a sociologist, Pitirim Sorokin of Harvard. ESSAYS IN HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Edited by Dwight E. Lee and George E. McReynolds. Worcester (Mass.) : Clark Uni versity, 1949, 324 p. $6.00. Fifteen contributions to the history of the last hundred years, in honor of Pro fessor George H. Blakeslee of Clark University.