The present work on the international administration of specific territories deals not only with the latest examples of UN operations launched by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, but endeavours to confront the reader with the wider panorama of all regimes of internationalisation since the time of the League of Nations. It is on this broad basis that the author succeeds in establishing a balance sheet which shows all of the achievements, but also all of the failures that have occurred in processes of internationalisation implemented since the end of World War I. Notwithstanding the wealth of information displayed, the reader of the book does.
