Sohn said in his foreword that the book "is an in-depth study of one of the most complex problems and could have been the last word on the subject were it not for the fact that the ingenuity of the human mind can produce new ideas, elements or formulas...The time to realize this idea is coming and we should all be grateful that the author has put in the enormous effort to gather this information for us in such a clear and well-organized way."
In this book, Blanco Gaspar analyzes and studies numerous international conferences to expose how these events have become a fundamental tool in contemporary diplomacy.
Aspects of Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Suez Crisis[11] published in the International Policy Magazine of the Institute of Political Studies, or the article "Transboundary pollution in the OECD and its impact on Maritime Law" in the collective publication Liber Amicorum: Legal Studies in Homage to Professor Dr. Antonio Rodríguez Sastre, in recognition of the president of the Spanish section of International Law Association.
[14] In the prologue on International Law, Community and European Union[15] Professor Antonio Rodríguez Sastre considers that the book is necessary to promote a global analysis of the relationships between homogeneous legal fields.
Blanco Gaspar was a lawyer, approved to practice before the New York State Court of Appeals, at Sullivan & Cromwell on Wall Street between 1967 and 1968.
[20] When Blanco Gaspar was consul in Metz, he was in charge "ad interim" of the Consulate General in Strasbourg to coordinate the participation of the Spanish residents in his meeting with the President of the Government, Adolfo Suárez González, on the occasion of his presence in Strasbourg to fulfill the provisions of the Act of Accession of Spain of November 24, 1977[21] to the London Treaty of May 5, 1949, that created the Council of Europe.
[25] In 1966 Blanco Gaspar collaborated with Roger Fisher on a paper on the 1956 Suez Crisis for the American Society of International Law, ASIL[29] in Washington D.C.
The study analyzes the position of the United States regarding the nationalization of the Suez Canal, defending freedom of passage and the principles of international law.
The work carried out explores how international law influenced the decisions made by each of the governments involved in the conflict, within the framework of war and peace.