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From Helsinki to Madrid. Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. Documents1973-1983. by Adam Daniel Rotfeld; Z. Lachowski; A. D. RotfeldReview by: Richard SzawlowskiThe American Journal of International Law, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Oct., 1986), pp. 1022-1023Published by: American Society of International LawStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2202107 .Accessed: 03/04/2013 06:47

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1022 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW [Vol. 80

munities. On the other hand, dealing with the most significant ubstantiveareas of Common Market awrequires the competence of corporate awyers,antitrust pecialists, ustoms, patent and tax law experts s the case may be,plus a background of comparative aw. The most complete treatises r com-mentaries re, therefore, s a rule the work of teams of authors, while sin-gle-handed fforts end to underline ome aspects of the system, sually heinstitutional nes when they re the work of nternational awyers, s is mostoften the case. This work by Tito Ballarino, n the form of a concise intro-duction to Common Market aw, s no exception to the rule, being the workof a distinguished nternational awyer.

The book covers the whole of the subject: historical volution not in-cluding, of course, the latest mendments o the EEC Treaty agreed upon

in Luxembourg on January 7, 1986); institutional tructure; asic substan-tive provisions freedom f movement, ntitrust aw, economic nd monetarycooperation); the sources of Community aw; the competence of the CourtofJustice; he fundamental rinciples f the Community; nterrelations ithdomestic aw especiallywith espect oItaly); nd the Community s a subjectof international aw. However, questions concerning ources and principlesof aw, the urisprudence f the ECCourt and the nterrelation ith domesticlaw constitute most of the book.

The fundamental eatures f Community aw are systematically et forth,

with ubstantial eference o the case law of the Court. Of special interestis the review of the general principles f Community aw (pp. 120-34):principles elated to the basic economic philosophy f the Community uchas those of equality or nondiscrimination, conomic freedom, olidarity ndthe unity f the Common Market. Other principles elate to the fair ppli-cation of any Community ule: proportionality; eliance by private partieson the consistency f Community egislation; ystematic nd teleological n-terpretation n order to guarantee he effectiveness f the Community rder;and the protection f fundamental ights.

The book commends itself s an introduction o the Community egalsystem or hoseunfamiliar with t and also for he nonlawyer who is lookingfor comprehengive nd handy reatment f the subject, hough he additionof a bibliography would have been useful to this end.

GIORGIO SACERDOTIUniversity fBergamo

FromHelsinki o Madrid. Conference n Security nd Co-operationn Europe.Doc-uments 973-1983. Edited by Adam Daniel Rotfeld; selected and ver-

ified by Z. Lachowski and A. D. Rotfeld. Warsaw: Polish Institute fInternational Affairs, o-operative Publishers. Pp. 347. ZI. 200.

Dr. Rotfeld was a member of the Polish delegation to the Madrid andearlier Conference n Security nd Co-operation n Europe (CSCE) meetings.His book contains parallel English nd Polish texts of an introduction, ndlater reproduces, lso in both anguages, number of pertinent ocuments.The latter re ordered nto two sets: the first mbraces 10 CSCE documentsstarting with the Final Recommendations of the Helsinki Consultations

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(1973) and the Final Act of the CSCE (1975),and ending with he ConcludingDocument of the Madrid meeting 1983); the second set reproduces 16items with different olish (or Polish-cosponsored) roposals submitted ovarious CSCE meetings.

The relatively hort ntroduction f some 35 pages is, of necessity, erygeneral. Literature n the topic s tremendous: he author mentions p. 13)that he has recorded over two thousand bibliographical tems books andarticles)dealing with various spects of the CSCE. The introduction onsistsof the following arts: General Remarks, Origins of the CSCE Process,Course of the CSCE, Decisions of the CSCE and Continuity f the

CSCE Process.Replete with well-balanced nformation, he introduction s, to a great

extent, written n a fairly bjective manner; of course, certain things repassed over n silence, specially herole the Polish ituation layed t Madridin 1982-1983. The language is moderate and without ny Party argon. Allthis s in contrast o the pertinent oviet (and East German) publications.Suffice t to compare it with, for example, the longish 10th anniversaryarticle Successes, ifficulties, opes by L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the SovietCommittee for European Security and Cooperation, in Pravda of July8, 1985.

After having ketched ome extremely ifferent ssessments f the CSCE,

running all the way from unqualified pproval to extreme criticism, heauthor writes: What is the truth? What determines he value of the CSCEdecisions?What is unique about the multilateral rocess of security nd co-operation nitiated n Helsinki?The real state cannot be perceived withoutaccessto the sources, to the original documents p. 14).

One can only agree with this approach and express the wish that theintegral texts of the respective documents be published much more oftenin Eastern works on international aw and relations.

The present collection s timely nd convenient. Regarding the politicalaspects of the CSCE, as seen from ur side, emphasis must be on two state-ments, made by-Western tatesmen, f which Rotfeld reminds us: Historywill udge this Conference not by what we say here today, but by what wedo tomorrow-not by the promises we make but by the promises we keep(former resident Gerald Ford, Helsinki, August 1975). And regarding urprimordial oncern with human rights: In the anguage of Helsinki, BasketI will be empty unless there are plenty of eggs in Basket 111 (Sir AlecDouglas-Home, Helsinki,July 1973).

RICHARD SZAWLOWSKIVancouver, .C.

Basic Documentsn United ations nd Related eace-Keeping orces. y RobertC. R. Siekmann. Published under the auspices of the T.M.C. AsserInstituut. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff ublishers,1985. Pp. xviii, 273. Index. Dfl.140; $44.50; ?38.75.

For those who are engaged in research on United Nations and RelatedPeace-Keeping Forces, this book will be welcome. It will save many hours

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