Book Reviews : United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations: A Military and Political Appraisal. By JAMES M. BOYD. Foreword by Leland M. Goodrich. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Public Affairs Pp. 278. $15.00.)

• Published date: 01 December 1971
• Date: 01 December 1971
• Author: Joel Larus
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297102400426
• Subject Matter: Articles

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resolved.

Again,

the

establishment

of

a

state

of

Palestine

with

guaranteed

bound-

aries

offers

a

logical

solution,

but

unfortunately,

the

indigenous

leadership

for

such

a

state

is

just

not

visible

at

this

time.

Intra-Arab

conflicts

compound

this

problem,

and

the

refugees

resulting

from

the

continuation

of

the

conflict

have

little

to

hope

for.

Whoever

is

responsible,

it

seems

more

obvious

daily,

as

the

author

points

out,

that

&dquo;the

rehabilitation

of

the

displaced

and

disrupted

population

of

the

Middle

East

will

require

an

international

effort,

with

a

very

careful

blending

of

resources

and

symbolic

components.&dquo;

For

the

Golan

Heights

problem,

recognition

is

strongly

recommended

for

the

large

Druze

population

in

the

area,

and

the

foundation

of

a

trust

territory

is

sug-

gested.

For

Jerusalem,

this

holy

city

would

become

an

Israeli

city,

but

operated

under

a

unique

statutory

system

to

meet

the

needs

of

the

universal

religious

and

mixed

populations

involved.

In

sum,

the

thoughts

contained

in

this

small

volume

are

worthy

of

con-

sideration,

and

it

must

be

remembered

that

the

solutions

to

these

complex

problems

require

not

only

time,

as

the

author

states,

but

imagination

and

innovation

by

the

international

community

to

resolve

what

is

basically

&dquo;a

moral

and

human

problem.&dquo;

University

of

Utah

LORENZO

K.

KIMBALL

United

Nations

Peace-Keeping

Operations:

A

Military

and

Political

Appraisal.

By

JAMES

M.

BOYD.

Foreword

by

Leland

M.

Goodrich.

(New

York:

Praeger

Publishers,

1971.

Praeger

Special

Studies

in

International

Politics

and

Public

Affairs

Pp.

278.

$15.00.)

Since

the

first

United

Nations

operation

in

Korea

there

has

been

a

steady

stream

of

books

dealing

with

the

advantages

and

limitations

of

maintaining

international

peace

and

security

as

a

function

of

a

global

organization

made

up

of

sovereign

states.

The

widespread

attention

this

problem

has

received

within

the

academic

community

is

certainly

deserved,

for

the

several

efforts

of

the

Organ-

ization

to

deal

with

aggression

in

a

collective

manner

is

one

of

the

few

long-

championed

political

ideas

put

into

practice

during

the

twentieth

century.

Never-

theless,

as

Goodrich

suggests

in

his

Foreword,

the

author

of

still

another

study

dealing

with

the

UN

and

peace-keeping

must

have

unusual

credentials

or

an

un-

common

point

of

view

if

he

is

to

avoid

producing

a

work

not

pre-empted

by

earlier

published

studies.

Boyd’s

professional

background

is

certainly

not

of

the

ordinary.

In

the

early

1960’s

after

his

graduation

from

the

Air

War

College

he

was

appointed

Deputy

United

States

Air

Force

Representative

to

the

United

Nations

and

somewhat

later

promoted

to

Chief

of

Staff,

UN

Military

Staff

Committee

(1965-69).

When

the

Special

Committee

on

Peace-Keeping

Operations

was

established,

better

known

as

the

Committee

of

33,

Boyd

became

an

adviser

to

the

American

representative

on

this

body.