ABSTRACT
In 1916, in the preface to his book, Termination of War and Treaties of Peace, Coleman Phillipson wrote on war termination: 'There is no publication in any language that deals with this most important branch of international law and practice in a systematic and comprehensive manner'.3 While this statement could not be accepted at face value (and Phillipson's own extensive bibliography qualifies it), it has nevertheless been frequently and faithfully repeated in today's literature on the same subject. Fred C. Ikl6 writes, for example: 'How are wars brought to an end? Historians, students of military strategy, and experts on foreign affairs have tended to neglect this question. Much attention, by contrast, has been devoted to the question of how wars begin'.4 Has so little really been written since 1916 on such an important subject, and if so, why? Why do so many scholars who themselves write in this field believe that the research is insufficient?
