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The article reviews several books including "Keep From All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II," by Jim Lacey, "Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First Century Defense Industry," by Jacques Gansler, and "Case Studies in Defence Procurement and Logistics," by David Moore.

The numerical and functional prominence of armed and unarmed contractors on deployed operations has attracted analysis from a range of perspectives, as this collection of works illustrates. In addition to studies which seek to explain the growth in private security contractors' activities in terms of governmental needs, the books examined here consider the possible regulation of this sector and implications for the fundamentals of both national and international political systems. There are also works that throw light on the supply side, looking at the driving personalities behind the growth of Blackwater and the backgrounds of individual contractors. The review also includes an analytical framework for classifying different areas of contractor activities. The books include a range of research approaches and it is clear that the evolving political and managerial reasoning behind the outsourcing of security functions in general means that debate in this area will continue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the books 'US Military Strategy in the Gulf,' by Amitav Acharya, 'The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941,' by Jurg Martin Gabriel, 'The Challenge of Interdependence: Mexico and the United States,' by M.D. Lanham, 'International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime,' by Barry E. Carter, 'Beyond Military Reform: American Defense Dilemmas,' by J. Record.

Game Theory and Experimental Games: The Study of Strategic Interaction. Andrew Colman. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1982. 301pp. £8.95 (paper). The Arms Race and Arms Control. SIPRI, London: Taylor and Francis, 1982. 243pp. £3.95 (paper). This is your War: Home Front Propaganda in the Second World War. Marion Yass. London: HMSO, 1983. vi + 62pp. £4.95. Resort to Arms: International and Civil Wars 1816–1980. Melvin Small and J. David Singer. London & Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982. 372pp. Paper £7.95, cloth £17.25. Arms Transfers Under Nixon: A Policy Analysis. Lewis Sorley. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1983. 231pp. including index. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Military Force: An Analysis of Marxist‐Leninist Concepts by Julian Lider. Farnborough: Gower Pbg. Co., 1981. xiii and 345 pp. Marxism and the Science of War edited by Bernard Semmel. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1981, XVI and 302 pp. £15.95, £6.95 paper. The Impact of New Military Technology edited by Jonathan Alford. London, The Adelphi Library Volume 4, published for the International Institute for Strategic Studies by Gower, 132 pp. including an Index, £8.50. Strategic Deterrence in a Changing Environment edited by Christoph Bertram. Adelphi Library 6. Published for I.I.S.S. by Gower and Allanheld, Osmun. January 1981. £9.50. 189pp. Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Association by Timothy P. Ireland. London: Aldwych Press, 1981. 245 pp. The Shape of Wars to Come. The Hidden Facts behind the Arms Race in Space by David Baker. Patrick Stephens, London, 1981. 177pp. £8.95. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

All Fall Down: America's Fateful Encounter with Iran By Gary Sick. London: I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd, 1985. 380 pp. £16.50. Nuclear First Use By Professor Neville Brown and General Sir Anthony Farrar‐Hockley. London: Buchan and Enright, for RUSI, 1985. 108 pp. £5.50. Small is Dangerous (Micro‐states in a Macro World) A Report from the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Affairs. Edited by Sheila Harden. London: Frances Pinter, 1985. 212 pp. £17.50 The Fallacy of Star Wars: Why Space Weapons Can't Protect Us Edited by John Tirman. New York: Vintage Books, 1984. 293 pp. $US 4.95 (pbk). A Defense That Defends: Blocking Nuclear Attack By Gregory Fossedal and Daniel O. Graham. Old Greenwich, CT: Devin‐Adair, 1984. 158 pp. $US 17.50. From H‐Bomb to Star Wars: The Politics of Strategic Decisionmaking By Jonathan B. Stein. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath & Co., 1984. 118 pp. $US 20.00. Relationship Between Yugoslavia and Albania Edited by Dr. Ranko Petkovic. Belgrade: Review of International Affairs, 1984. 304 pp. YD 600, $US 2.20. A Strategy for Terminating a Nuclear War By Clark C. Abt. London: Westview Press, 1985. 253 pp. £23.75. The Senate and US Troops in Europe By Phil Williams. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1985. 315 pp. £30. Law, Force and Diplomacy at Sea By Ken Booth. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985. 231 pp. £7.95. Soviet International Behavior and US Policy Options Edited by Dan Caldwell. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath & Co. (UK distributors: Gower Publishing Co.), 1985. 292 pp. £36. The Future of British Defence Policy Edited by John Roper. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Co., for NIESR, PSI, RIIA (Joint Studies in Public Policy No. 11), 1985. 205 pp. including index. £18.50. Paying for Defence: Military Spending and British Decline Malcolm Chalmers. London: Pluto Press, 1985. 200 pp. including index. £3.95 (pbk). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Making the Most of the Least: alternative ways to development. Edited by Leonard Berry and Robert W Kates, New York: Holmes & Meier. 1980. 282pp. £17.25 The Study of Political Adaptation. James N Rosenau, London: Frances Pinter. 1981. 235pp. £15.00. £6.00pb Perspectives on World Politics. Edited by Michael Smith, Richard Little and Michael Shackleton, London: Croom Helm. 1980. 431pp. £12.95 Vodka‐Cola: the explosive cocktail of detente. Charles Levinson Horsham, England: Biblias. 1980.328pp. £9.95 White Supremacy: a comparative study in American and South African history. George M Fredrickson, New York: OUP. 1981. 356pp. £12.50 The Third World Calamity. Brian May, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1981. 274pp. £8.95 Reflections on Economic Development and Social Change: essays in honour of Professor V K R V Rao. Edited by C H H Rao and P C Joshi, Oxford: Martin Robertson. 1979. 486pp. £19.50 Circle of Poison: pesticides and people in a hungry world. David Weir and Mark Schapiro San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy. 1981. 101pp. $3.95pb United States Food Aid in a Global Context. Mitchell B Wallerstein, London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1980. 299pp. £21.00 The World of States. J D B Miller, London: Croom Helm. 1981.179pp. £12.50 The Development Gap: a spatial analysis of world poverty and inequality. J P Cole Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1981. 454pp. £16.80 Agribusiness in the Americas. Roger Burbach and Patricia Flynn, London: Monthly Review Press. 1980. 314pp. £3.25 A Plough in Field Arable: western agribusiness in Third World agriculture. Sarah Potts Voll London: University of New Hampshire. 1981. 213pp. £7.25 Food Policies. John R Tarrant Chichester, England: John Wiley. 1980. 338pp. £15.00 The Political Economy of EEC Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States: contributions to the understanding of the Lomé Convention on North‐South relations. Edited by Frank Long, Oxford: Pergamon. 1980. 192pp. £10.50 EEC and the Third World: a survey. Edited by Christopher Stevens, London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1981. 150pp. £5.00pb A Framework for Development: the EEC and the ACP. Carol Cosgrove Twitchett, London: George Allen & Unwin. 1981. 160pp. £12.00 The EEC's Generalised Scheme of Preferences and the Yaoundé and Other Agreements: benefits in trade and development for less developed countries. Delsie M Gandia Montclair, US: Allanheld Osmun. 1981. 178pp. $20.00 The Trade Union Movement in Africa: promise and performance. Wogu Ananaba, London: C Hurst. 1979. 260pp. £9.00 Organise... or Starve: the history of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Walls, London: Lawrence & Wishart. 1980. 520pp. £7.95. £3.50pb Conflict and Intervention in the Horn of Africa. Bereket Habte Selassie, London: Monthly Review Press. 1980. 211pp. £8.00 The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya 1918–77. Nicola Swainson, London: Heinemann Educational. 1980. 306pp. £3.95pb Soviet and Chinese Aid to African Nations. Editd by Warren Weinstein and Thomas H Henriksen, New York: Praeger. 1980. 184pp. £13.00 Nepal in Crisis: growth and stagnation at the periphery P Blaikie, J Cameron and D Seddon, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1980. 311pp. £17.50. Electoral Politics in the Middle East: issues, voters and elites. Edited by Jacob M Landau, Ergun Özbudun and Frank Tachau, London: Croom Helm & Stanford: Hoover Institution. 1980. 335pp. £19.95 Survey of Economy, Resources and Prospects of South Asia. M L Qureshi Colombo: Marga Institute (in association with Third World Foundation). 1981. 274pp. np Sociology of Southeast Asia: readings on social change and development. Edited by Hans‐Dieter Evers Oxford University Press. 1981. 292pp. £17.50. State Manufacturing Enterprise in a Mixed Economy: the Turkish case. Bertil Walstedt, London: John Hopkins (for the World Bank). 1981. 354pp. £6.00 The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Turkey. Edited by Ergun Özbudun and Aydin Ulusan, London: Holmes & Meier. 1980. 533pp. £22.95 Minangkabau Social Formations: Indonesian peasants and the world economy. Joel S Kahn, Cambridge University Press. 1980. 228pp. £15.00 Industrial Growth, Employment and Foreign Investment in Peninsula Malaysia. Lutz Hoffman and Tan Siew Ee Oxford University Press. 1980. 322pp. £19.50 Egypt: economic management in a period of transition. Khalid Ikram, London: John Hopkins University Press. 1980. 444pp. np Korea: a decade of development. Edited by Yunshik Chang Seoul National University Press. 1980. 312pp. $10.00 Pakhtun Economy and Society. Akbar S Ahmed, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1980. 416pp. £15.00 Chinese Educational Policy. Jan‐Ingvar Lofstedt Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. 1980. 203pp. SKr 185 The Caribbean Issues of Emergence: socio‐economic and political perspective. Vincent R McDonald, Washington DC: University of America. 1980. 356pp. $21.25. $11.95pb The Structure of Brazilian Development. Edited by Nuema Aguiar New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books. 1979. 258pp. $14.95 Literacy and Revolution: the pedagogy of Paulo Freire. Edited by Robert Mackie, London: Pluto Press. 1980. 166pp. £3.50pb Theories of Imperialism. Wolfgang J Mommsen, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1981. 180pp. £8.50 Colonialism 1870–1945: an introduction. D K Fieldhouse, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1981. 151pp. £8.95 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the books 'Uncertain Detente,' edited by Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau and 'Superpowers and International Conflict,' by Carsten Holbraad.

Reviews the book "Risks Of Unintentional Nuclear War," by Daniel Frei.

Reviews the book "People, States and Fear," by B. Buzan.

Reviews the book `The Business of Death: Britain's Arms Trade at Home and Abroad,' by Neil Cooper.

Reviews the book `Power Competition in East Asia: From the Old Chinese World Order to Post Cold-War Regional Multipolarity,' by Suisheng Zhao.

Reviews the book `The Information Revolution and National Security: Dimensions and Directions,' edited by Stuart J.D. Schwartzstein.

Reviews the books `Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance,' by Walter Hatch and Kozo Yamamura, `Asia's Deadly Triangle: How Arms, Energy and Growth Threaten to Destabilize Asia-Pacific,' by Kent E. Calder, and `Southeast Asia in the New World Order: The Political Economy of a Dynamic Region,' edited by David Wurfel and Bruce Burton.

Reviews the book `The Future of European Security: An Interim Assessment,' by Catherine McArdle Kelleher.

Reviews the books ``Rich nation, strong army': national security and the technological transformation of Japan,' by Richard J. Samuels, and `Japan: a new kind of superpower?,' edited by Craig C. Garby and Mary Brown Bullock.

Reviews the book `Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Fallacy of Political Realism,' by Miroslav Nincic.

Reviews the books `Defining Power: Influence and Force in the Contemporary International System,' by John M. Rothgeb Jr., `American Economic Policy and National Security,' by Theodore H. Moran, `Defining National Security: The Nonmilitary Aspects,' by Joseph J. Romm, and `The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World,' edited by Bahgat Korany, Paul Noble and Rex Brynen.

Reviews the book `The highest stakes: the economic foundations of the next security system,' by Wayne Sandoltz et al.

Reviews the books `Defence expenditure, industrial conversion and local employment,` edited by L. Paukert and P. Richards and `Disarming military industries: turning an outbreak of peace into an enduring legacy,` by Peter Southwood.

Reviews the book 'Satellites for Arms Control and Crisis Monitoring,' edited by Bhupendra Jasani and Toshibomi Sakata.

Reviews the book 'The Gulf Economics in Transition,' by Henry T. Azzam.

Reviews the book 'Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf,' by Mazher A. Hameed.

Reviews the book 'Trident: The Only Option?,' by Colin McInnes.

Reviews the book 'A Nation in Retreat? Britain's Defence Commitment,' by Christopher Coker.

Reviews several books on international security. 'How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete,' by Robert Jastrow; 'Star Wars: Science-Fiction Fantasy or Serious Probability?,' edited by E.P. Thompson; 'Strategic Defense: 'Star Wars' in Perspective,' by Keith B. Payne.

Reviews the books 'The Persian Gulf and United States Policy: A Guide to Issues and References,' by Bruce R. Kuniholm and 'Gulf Security Into the 1980s: Perceptual and Strategic Dimensions,' edited by Robert G. Darius, John W. Amos II and Ralph H. Magnus.

Reviews the books 'The Disarmer's Handbook of Military Technology and Organization,' by Andrew Wilson and 'Crisis Over Cruise: A Plain Guide to the New Weapons,' by Philip Webber, Graeme Wilkinson and Barry Rubin.

Reviews the book 'Not By War Alone: Security and Arms Control in the Middle East,' by Paul Jabber.

Reviews the book 'Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb,' by Brij Moham Kaushik and O.N. Mehrotra.

Reviews the book 'The European Armaments Market and Procurement Cooperation, edited by pauline Creasey and Simon May.

Reviews books on European security. 'Defending Europe in the 1990s: The New Divide of High Technology,' by J.C. Rallo; 'European Security in the Nuclear Age,' by J.H. Wyllie.

The article reviews the book "Henry Kissinger, His Personality and Policies," by Dan Caldwell.

Reviews the book, `Innovation in East Asia: The Challenge to Japan,' by Michael Hobday. Discussion of the economic successes in various East Asian countries; Concentration on the electronic sectors.

Reviews the book, `The Ultimate Crime: Who Betrayed the UN and Why,' by Linda Malvern. What the book focuses on; Protection of United Nation's staff; UN's financial problems; Examination of the UN's past; Layout of book.

Reviews the book `Israel's Nuclear Dilemma,' by Yair Evron.

Reviews the book `The New European Security Disorder,' by Simon Duke.

Reviews the book `The United Nations, Iran and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed,' by Cameron R. Hume.

Reviews the book `The Middle East and Europe: The Search for Stability and Integration,' edited by Gerd Nonneman.

Reviews the book `From swords to plowshares? Defense industry reform in the PRC,' by Paul Humes Folta.

Reviews the book `Homeward bound? Allied forces in the new Germany,' edited by David G. Haglund and Olaf Mager.