"The unavoidable conclusion", Mr Chopra says, "may be that the UN, despite its ability to monopolise the image of legitimacy, is ill-suited to administering territories in transition".
The company also administered territory in what is now Uganda; when it became involved with the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro, it incurred a great debt and therefore was forced to limit its activities to regions nearer the coast.
Cameroon is divided into 10 administrative regions two (the North-West and South-West) are part of the former British administered territory of Southern Cameroons and the eight others are part of the former French administered territory of Cameroun.
The Legalists were philosophers and officials who focused on developing practical techniques for rulers to secure and administer territory, and to preserve their control over their subjects, particularly the aristocracy and the emerging bureaucracy.
Discusses the policy, or lack of policy, in the occupied territories (called the administered territories) - the Arab lands that have been occupied since the Six-Day War.
"Civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention," Mr Meron wrote to Levi Eshkol, the prime minister at the time.
For a time, the Israelis fell back to the administered territories and later to the disputed territories, but almost all the media adopted West Bank as distinct from Israel proper, and any traditionalist reference to Judea and Samaria is now considered quaint or slanted.
Israeli officials have known this since 1967, when Theodor Meron, then legal counsel to the Israeli Foreign Ministry and later president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, wrote to one of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol's aides: "My conclusion is that civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes the explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention".
Their message has fallen mostly on deaf ears, but that has not stopped them from trying this time with more gusto than ever.Because securities law falls under the provinces' jurisdiction, each of the ten provinces and three federally administered territories has its own rules, plus a regulator to enforce them.
Such visits are rare from Chinese leaders, who typically feign an arm's length in administering the territory.
Fed up with corruption and incapacitated officials administering the territory, it is understandable the frustration among the islanders and their lack of faith in the local government.
