Capsule Review July 1976 Issue

Social Change, Charisma and International Behaviour: Toward a Theory of Foreign Policy-Making in the Third World

by Bahgat Korany
Reviewed by Robert Gilpin

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Social Change, Charisma and International Behaviour: Toward a Theory of Foreign Policy-Making in the Third World

By Bahgat Korany
Sijthoff (for the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales,, 1976
460 pp.
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The purpose of this book is the development of a theory of political nonalignment and its application to Nasser's Egypt and Nehru's India, in particular. The author's skillful critique of Western theories of international relations is worthy of note.