/library/oar/handle/123456789/38380 2025-12-28T12:01:17Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/34480 Title: Book review : Jeremy Boissevain. Friends of friends Abstract: Sometimes a book is already famous before its printing has started. Friends of Friends is such a book. Many social scientists in En- gland, Holland, Malta and elsewhere were looking forward to its appearance; it had already been called 'The Bible of Network-Analysis', drafts of chapters had been presented to students and many of the concepts and ideas discussed were diffused before their 'official' presentation in the printed book. The final product may not quite live up to its rumoured reputation as a 'Bible', and the author will probably happily agree that he did not attempt to produce final words, but rather to stimulate critical thinking in new directions. Although the book is mainly a collection of separate essays, the main aim is always clear: to find new and different ways of sociological inquiry, instead of the static, but still dominant 'structural-functionalist' approach. 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/34479 Title: Mediterranean regional policy Authors: Serracino Inglott, Peter Abstract: The object of this paper is to outline a possible strategy of trans-national institutional development at the regional level for the Mediterranean, but it offers us no more than a framework within which the major questions might possibly be discussed by the various specialists in their respective areas of competence (and in the variety of their interactions). The first part sketches out the thoughts at the back of the institutional proposals sketched out in the second part. The first point to be stressed is the recognition of the desirable complementariness of global and regional policies and institutions, both with regard to the Law of The Sea in particular, and to the New Economic Order in general. 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/34478 Title: Cooperation in Mediterranean systems research Authors: Macelli, Anthony Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to suggest methods of analysis which could be used as the basis for the co-operation of several Mediterranean Universities and other research institutions. Each could assign itself part of the global task and later one or two workers from each institute could meet and carry out the subsequent integrating of the various outcomes into one model (e.g. a simulation and forecasting model) or other analytical tool (e.g. a checklist of important factors, a tree-graph of causes and effects and event probabilities). Such a tool could then, while undergoing continual elaboration and updating, be used as the basis for the co-ordination and management tasks of a central Mediterranean institution of the type that has recently been proposed. 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/34477 Title: Trade and piece : tradition and the Kissinger-Nixon foreign policy of the United States Authors: Grima, Peter J. Abstract: '...without expansion of international trade, based upon fair dealing and equal treatment for all, there can be no stability and security either within or among nations... (Furthermore) the withdrawal by a nation (or group of nations) from orderly trade with the rest of the world inevitably leads...to preparations for (a military or trade) war and a provocative attitude toward other nations.' 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z