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Securing The Strength Of The Renewed Npt: China, The Linchpin "Middle Kingdom", Gary J. Meise

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The consensus indefinite extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1995 and the more recent conclusion of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. which was supported by all five of the world's declared nuclear weapons states, allow for unprecedented optimism by nonproliferation experts regarding nuclear weapons proliferation curtailment and weapons reduction. These recent inroads into the accomplishment of NPT goals raise new questions. however. regarding the underlying commitment level of nuclear powers. China's proliferation record, in particular. is marred with inconsistencies, but its current economic growth and increasingly nonisolationist policies may cause China to reconsider its past noncompliance with the …

Book Reviews, Josef Rysan, L. G., G. C., R. P. B., W. E. W.

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY

It is significant that the most brilliant and penetrating analysis of the West German democracy comes from the pen of the leading German philosopher, Karl Jaspers. This fact demonstrates that German philosophy which used to be exclusively an "ivory tower" affair has finally come to grips with contemporary social problems. The English edition contains not only the translation of Jaspers' German bestseller, but also of the philosopher's just published "Answer to My Critics."

reviewer: Josef Rysan

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THE ENGLISH

by David Frost and Antony Jay

255 pages Stein and Day, New York, 1968.

reviewer: L.G.

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