An International relations debacle : the UN secretary-general's mission of good offices in Cyprus, 1999-2004
"This book is a case study in international relations and contemporary history, as seen from the standpoint of a constitutional, international and human rights lawyer involved in 25 years of negotiations to agree on a federation reuniting the divided Island of Cyprus. Based for the most part on personal knowledge, the writer describes recent international attempts to settle the long-standing disputes over Cyprus and provides a warning to those who invoke UN 'good offices' machinery of risks they run." "Accompanying the text, which concentrates on the 2002-2004 period, is an extensive photographic record since 1954 of 'the Cyprus problem' and of previous and recent attempts at negotiation. The illustrations, sometimes light-heartedly captioned, put events in context and illuminate the attitudes of significant actors in a manner no written text other than one by a novelist can do. The writer both in text and photographs, frankly avows the prejudices and selectivity inevitable in any account of controversial and divisive events."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2005
Hart Pub., Oxford, 2005