Review: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: Keeping the Peace in the Cyprus Crisis of 1963–64
| Date | 01 December 2002 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200205700420 |
| Author | Neophytos G. Loizides |
| Published date | 01 December 2002 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Guinea-Bissau,
where
civil
war
occurred between
June
1998
and
May
1999
consequent
upon
the
factional division
of
the
country's
army
between
President
Joao
Vieira
and
General
Ansumane Mane.
Drawing
on
both
his practical
experience
from
United
Nations
mis-
sions
in
various
hot
spots
of
the
world
and
his
intellectual
orientation,
Adekeye
analyzes
intervention
in
the three
countries
and
comes
up
with
the
following findings:
first,
'personalized
autocracies'
accounted
for
the eventual
outbreak
of
civil wars;
second,
the proliferation
of
armed
factions
in
each
of
the countries
and
their
support
by
regional
leaders
intensified
conflict;
third,
ECOMOG
did
not
gain
francophone
support
and
its
mission
was
unclear
(especially
in
Liberia);
fourth,
peacemakers
were
ill
equipped,
prompting
France to
shoulder
the
financial
cost
of
the
operation
in
Guinea-Bissau;
fifth, external
support
from
the
United
States,
Britain,
the
European
Union,
and
the United
Nations
after
the
cessation
of
hostilities
contributed
to
peace-building;
and,
finally,
civil
society
groups on
the
ground
mediated
among
war-
ring
groups,
but
their
ability to contain
conflict
should
not
be
exag-
gerated.
It
is
on
the
basis
of
these experiences
that
ECOWAS
decided
in
1999
to
establish
a
standby
army
to
be
deployed
at
short
notice.
On
balance,
the
book
is
a
definitive
study
of
subregional
intervention
and
is
ideally
suited
for
both
graduate
and
undergraduate
readings.
John
Boye
Ejobowah/University
of
Toronto
KEEPING
THE
PEACE
IN
THE
CYPRUS
CRISIS
OF
1963-64
Alan
James
Basingstoke
and
New
York:
2002,
xxi,
24
1pp,
us$68.00,
ISBN
0-333-
74857-3
The
Cyprus
crisis
of
1963-4
was
a
major
turning
point
in
the
ethnic
relations
between
the
two
communities
of
the
island.
The
outbreak
of
fighting
caused
the
collapse
of
power-sharing
and almost
brought
two
members
of
the
North
Atlantic
Treaty
Organization,
Greece and
Turkey,
into
war.
In
his
meticulous
and
balanced
account,
Alan
James
provides
a
well-reasoned
analysis
of
the efforts
to
contain
the
crisis.
Drawing
upon
archives
in
the
United
Nations, Britain,
Canada,
the
United
States,
and
Ireland,
as
well
as
interviews
and
other
sources,
James
probes
the
motives,
tactics,
and
policies
of
Western
powers.
He
does
not
intend
to
place
the
Cyprus
case
within
the broader
literature
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Autumn
2002
663
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