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Book Reviews 291 BOOK REVIEWS Perestroika and International Law. Edited by William E. Butler. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1990. 330pp. Dfl.199.00. ISBN 0-7923 - 0483-7. On 3 November 1989, the T.M.C. Asser Institute fcr International Law organized a conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague concerning "Perestroika and International Law". The main speaker was Professor V.S. Vereshchetin, Deputy Director of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The reason for or- ganizing this conference was a sensational article which Vereshchetin had published together with R.A. Mfllerson of the same Institute in the journal Sovetskoie Gosudarstvo i Pravo concerning the role of public international law within the framework of the "new thinking" in Soviet foreign policy.1 William Butler also refers to this article in the In- troduction of the volume which is here under review: " ... the implica- tions of 'new thinking' for Soviet approaches to international law were first explored extensively by Vereshchetin and Miillerson". He adds to this that the papers in this volume develop the approach of Mfllerson and Vereshchetin in two senses. First, Soviet international lawyers were invited to expound upon the "new thinking" and international law by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Socialist Law (in 1992 continued as Review of Central and East European Law) Brill

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Brill
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0165-0300
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1875-2985
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10.1163/187529891X00235
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291 BOOK REVIEWS Perestroika and International Law. Edited by William E. Butler. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1990. 330pp. Dfl.199.00. ISBN 0-7923 - 0483-7. On 3 November 1989, the T.M.C. Asser Institute fcr International Law organized a conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague concerning "Perestroika and International Law". The main speaker was Professor V.S. Vereshchetin, Deputy Director of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The reason for or- ganizing this conference was a sensational article which Vereshchetin had published together with R.A. Mfllerson of the same Institute in the journal Sovetskoie Gosudarstvo i Pravo concerning the role of public international law within the framework of the "new thinking" in Soviet foreign policy.1 William Butler also refers to this article in the In- troduction of the volume which is here under review: " ... the implica- tions of 'new thinking' for Soviet approaches to international law were first explored extensively by Vereshchetin and Miillerson". He adds to this that the papers in this volume develop the approach of Mfllerson and Vereshchetin in two senses. First, Soviet international lawyers were invited to expound upon the "new thinking" and international law by

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