426 Recensions / Reviews one of the world's most successful democratic regimes and industrial econ- omies. On the face of it, there would seem little dispute that Germans have gone from postwar misery and destitution to unparalleled standards of living. That view notwithstanding, the contributions to this volume sensitize us to some essentially negative vibrations. The tone of this book might best be de- scribed as discordant and bitter, for collectively the authors voice a pervasive malaise regarding postwar trends. For them, Germany's economic record and likely future are fraught with dangers. Typical of such fears is a recurrent preoccupation with Germany's "hegemonic project"—although for much of the book this concept remains a shadowy foreboding rather than a well-defined problem. According to William Graf's lucid, but ideologically laden, portrayal of this phenomenon, the culprit appears in the form of processes of internationali- zation. Readers may be excused for pausing to wonder why or how this could be. For has not Germany's material success (as well as its avoidance of some new and ominous Sonderweg) been deeply intertwined with the advance of European integration? Has not internationalization really meant interdepend- ence rather than hegemony? These questions are never fully answered, al- though one contributor, Frieder Schlupp, is most explicit in alleging that Ger- many's "grasp for world power" is to be understood through the "ideology and strategic action on the part of the dominant German domestic and foreign policy groups" (338). In a nutshell, the essays in this volume represent a con- demnation of postwar political and economic development in West Germany. Inevitably, volumes that compile diverse essays run the risk of suffering unevenness in quality and substance. Although there certainly are common threads running through many of these contributions, this collection is no ex- ception to the general rule. Discontinuities derive from the volume's broad scope and from the fact that while some chapters were originally written years earlier, others were solicited specifically for this volume. Thus some predate, and others postdate, unification. While unification is not the principal theme of this work, it figures prominently in the comments of several of the authors. Cu- riously, there is very little mention of the economic and political woes of the former East Germany. Given the recent burgeoning of high-quality political and economic anal- ysis about Germany in the wake of unification and in the context of European integration, one should not be astonished if this volume makes only a limited impression on emerging interpretations of the German political economy. WILLIAM M. CHANDLER McMaster University Building a New Global Order: Emerging Trends in International Security David Dewitt, David Haglund and John Kirton, eds. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. x, 425 Divided into three parts, this edited volume provides a rich; informative and useful contribution to the study of international security after the Cold War. The first part examines the distribution of power in the new system; the second evaluates the importance of transnational processes such as technology, com- munications, population and environmental control; and the final section ana- lyzes how international institutions and regimes such as the United Nations, NATO, the G7 and the Missile Technology Control Regime are coping with the changes.