Book Review: International Law and Organization: United Nations Forces
| Published date | 01 December 1965 |
| Date | 01 December 1965 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070206502000410 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK REVIEWS
537
Economic Union
was
dictated
by
the
short-run
strategical
considera-
tions
rather
than
by
the
long
run
economic
and
political
concepts.
This
paper
may
be
regarded
as
a
defence
of
de
Gaulle's
policy
in
barring
the
British entrance
into
the
Common
Market
in
1962,
written
by
an
Englishman
and from
the British
point
of
view.
Carrington's
paper,
however,
is
an
expression
of
some
extremist
views
and
hardly
can
be
considered
as
representative
of
British
public opinion.
It
should
have
been
supplemented
by
a
more
comprehensive
analysis
of
the British
attitude
towards
the
Continent.
The symposium
is
an
important
book, because
it
reveals
some
cleavage between
political
thinking
in
America and
in
continental
Europe.
This
cleavage
may
become
a
factor
weakening
the
Western
Alliance
and
for
this
reason
should
be
analysed carefully.
In
the
North
American
press
it is
customary to
attribute
the
difficulties
which
United
States
policy
meets
in
Europe
to
the
personally
non-cooperative
attitude
of
the
French President.
It
follows
from
the
papers
included
in
this
symposium
that
behind
some
of
de
Gaulle's actions,
irritating
as
they
may
be,
there
are
very
real
European
problems.
As
the
idea
of
European
integration
gains ground,
the
resentment
against
the
division of
Europe
by
the
so
called
Iron Curtain
is
growing-and
this
is
an
important
psychological
factor
in
the
present
European
situation.
Saint
Mary's
University,
Halifax
S.
SWANrIEWICZ
International
Law
and
Organization
UNr=s
NATIONS
FORCES.
A
Legal
Study.
By
D.
W.
Bowett.
1965.
(New
York:
Frederick
A.
Praeger.
Toronto:
Burns
&
MacEachern.
xxiv,
579pp.
$18.00)
This
book
is
a
comprehensive
legal
analysis
of
United
Nations
peacekeeping
efforts
and
a
specific
proposal
for
a
standing
U.N.
army
of
10,000
men.
Mr.
Bowett,
who
lectures
at
Cambridge
University,
starts
with
the
assumptfon
that
the
"uneconomical,
piecemeal
and
high-
ly
hazardous" practice
of
ad
hoc
peacekeeping
operations
can
be
elim-
inated
only by
"establishing
a
permanent
U.N.
military
force."
The
book
is
well
organized
and
clearly
written.
Part
I is
an
ex-
cellent
historical
analysis
of
all
U.N.
peacekeeping
efforts, including
a
postscript
on
Cyprus. His
study
of
tJNEF
and
oNuc
deals with
the
principle
of host-state
consent,
status
of
forces,
non-intervention,
and
related
problems,
though
largely
abstracted
from
the
larger
political
context.
Part
II,
even
further
abstracted
from
political
and
military
reali-
ties,
relates
his
historical analysis
to the
problem
of
creating
a
perm-
anent
force which
he believes
is
feasible
in
the
immediate
future
with-
out
a
general disarmament agreement
or
a
significant change
in
the
U.N.
system.
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