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A CASE FOR PEACE PROFITEERING THEORIST OF GUNS AND BUTTER: REVIEW

New York Times, 1986

Copyright New York Times Company Jan 5, 1986 ;ISSN: 0362-4331 ;CODEN: NYTIAO

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  • Title:
    A CASE FOR PEACE PROFITEERING THEORIST OF GUNS AND BUTTER: REVIEW
  • Author: 1500-2000.'', Paul Kennedy ; Paul Kennedy, the Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, is completing a book, ''The Dynamics of World Power
  • Subjects: KENNEDY, PAUL ; ROSENCRANCE, RICHARD
  • Is Part Of: New York Times, 1986
  • Description: When he set out to write a book about the relationship between economic power and military conquest, Richard Rosecrance spent two years finishing his first draft - then he threw it out. ''I realized I hadn't found the right focus,'' Mr. Rosecrance said in a recent telephone interview from his office at Cornell University. ''I wanted to attempt something new - to combine the role of economics and the role of strategy and defense in a general work of international relations. No one had tried to bring these two things together in that way. So I started over.'' The result was ''The Rise of the Trading State,'' a book the author hopes will lend historical perspective to the trade-offs between economic and military power, and stimulate new debate on the alternatives now facing American policy makers. ''Nations have really always had a choice as they make their way in the world,'' he said. ''They can expand and conquer territory, or they can decide to stay just within their own borders and develop their own economic strength through development at home and trade abroad.'' For the United States, the problem of balancing economic and military strategies is becoming increasingly acute. ''It can't be all or nothing,'' Mr. Rosecrance said. ''For example, you can't maintain a trading world without some military power. But the question is how much you have to have. ''I think the growth of American military strength was inevitable, because you are called to defend your interests or decide which ones you want to have. But if we are going to have an economic growth strategy in this country, I think our military spending is pre-empting a lot.'' History demonstrates, he said, that ''when you get overextended militarily and are spending so much to maintain your military, you are forecasting your own decline. I think that is the problem of the United States today.''- Mark A. Uhlig In 1912 Lord Esher, a confidant of King Edward VII's, a strategic adviser to the British Government and a man who had devoted most of his life to the study of military affairs, chanced to read [Norman Angell]'s ''Great Illusion,'' with its confident forecast that the new world economic system had made war impossible. It was an impressive and moving book, Esher conceded, and many of the facts about the commercial interdependence of the great powers were undoubtedly true. Yet he still wondered whether the emotional and ''warrior'' qualities in man would not reject such rational and businesslike arguments for compromise and peace.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y: New York Times Company
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0362-4331
    CODEN: NYTIAO
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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