Sweden: The Middle Way on Trial by Marquis ChildsReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 5 (Summer, 1980), p. 1198Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20040623 .

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1198 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

ment of the Federal Republic. A Swabian academic, he was a kind of intellectual patrician of his party and an early champion of Europe. His book

gives a rich, if not exactly sparse, account of his various roles and his encounters with the great in Germany and outside. Pleasantly evocative rather than austerely analytical or deeply perspicacious.

DER ZWEITE WELTKRIEG: URSACHEN UND ANLASS. By Georg Franz-Willing. Leoni am Starnberger See: Druffel-Verlag, 1980, 310 pp. DM. 29.50.

An appallingly tendentious book with the thesis that the "two Anglo-Saxon world powers, England and America, were driving toward war and [hence] bear principal responsibility" for the outbreak of World War II. According to this view, deceptively bolstered by revisionist literature and a smattering of other sources, Germany carried the least responsibility. A shoddy and polem ical work, cloaked in the trappings of scholarship.

WEST GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY: 1949-1979. Edited by Wolfram F. Hanrieder. Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press, 1980, 245 pp. $22.50.

A useful collection of essays on various aspects of West German foreign policy, both historical and contemporary in scope, and written by some of the best-known experts and practitioners in the field. A timely book?given the continued growth of German influence in the world.

DEMOCRACY IN WESTERN GERMANY. By Gordon Smith. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980, 225 pp. $17.50 (Paper, $9.95).

A helpful and comprehensive introduction to postwar German politics.

ITALY IN TRANSITION: CONFLICT AND CONSENSUS. Edited by Peter Lange and Sidney Tarrow. London: Cass, 1980, 186 pp. (Totowa, N.J.: Biblio, distributor, $25.00).

The theme of this informative symposium, mostly by Italian scholars, can

be found in Giuliano Amato's remark: "We Italians are in transit from the

past to the future of industrial capitalism without having lived through the

present." Italy's political culture is in a similar transition. Most of the essays breathe a certain confidence that Italian democracy, having survived so many crises, may yet go on to develop greater stability and growth. A massive array of facts bolsters a thoughtful analysis and makes this an eminently useful introduction to contemporary Italian politics.

SWEDEN: THE MIDDLE WAY ON TRIAL. By Marquis Childs. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980, 179 pp. $12.95.

A veteran journalist returns to the subject of his celebrated report of 1936, Sweden: The Middle Way. The present work, episodic and anecdotal, presents a

somber analysis of Sweden's difficulties which have been produced by the very successes of the welfare state. Once again, Swedish experience may have

exemplary lessons for other nations, as Sweden's crisis seems to epitomize Western problems. A timely and readable study.

THE STATE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1921-1972. By Paul Bew, Peter Gibbon and Henry Patterson. New York: St. Martin's, 1980, 231 pp. $19.95.

Northern Ireland has been a challenge to rulers and social theorists alike. The authors seek a double goal: to test and refine Marxist analysis and by doing so to elucidate the problems of Northern Ireland. They are critical of

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