Book Reviews : Corporate Power in an African State: The Political Impact of Multinational Mining Companies in Zambia. By RICHARD L. SKLAR. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. Pp. 245. $12.00.)

Abstract

Since the changes in national patterns of authority have been so extensive in recent years, Prescott’s book is a timely one. As well, it is an imaginative attempt to measure the impact of geographical factors on the process of national claims. By concentrating on national zones of authority, Prescott’s approach is a statecentric one. He implies that the political geography of the seas is the study of ocean areas claimed by nation-states. Because of this bias, he does not examine existing patterns of intergovernmental and transnational authority in the oceans. For example, the regional fishery commissions and IMCO (the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization) are not discussed. The chapter on the high seas lacks the coherence of earlier chapters. Similarly, the politically vital questions associated with islets, islands, and straits are not fully treated. Nor does Prescott examine the common geographical problems of groups of states such as the archi-