"Informative, provocative."--Journal of Asian Studies
"A valuable contribution to our understanding."--Political Science
Quarterly
"What makes Escape from Violence so important is that it is at once
historical, theoretical, empirical, and practical. [The book] takes
the reader--even the informed reader--far beyond what is available
in 'the literature' by providing a different cut on the problems,
particularly on the question of state formation and conflicts over
the nature of the social order, and by not only reviewing the 'root
causes' of refugee flows but suggesting how they
might be dealt with in the future. The combination of creative
thinking and realism could turn the work into a blueprint for
action if those who have the power to influence social policy take
the suggestions
seriously."--Peter I. Rose, Smith College
"A mature statement of a theory, and supporting cases, of the
relationships between causes of social conflict and the refugee
implications. The systemic treatment is pathbreaking. This work
will be one of those giants on whose shoulders others
build."--Charles B. Keely, Georgetown University
"It is an essential book for all scholars concerned with conflict
in the Third World. The book is highly relevant in comparative
politics, international relations, and security studies."--Ted
Gurr, University of Maryland, College Park
"Informative, provocative."--Journal of Asian Studies
"A valuable contribution to our understanding."--Political Science
Quarterly
"What makes Escape from Violence so important is that it is at once
historical, theoretical, empirical, and practical. [The book] takes
the reader--even the informed reader--far beyond what is available
in 'the literature' by providing a different cut on the problems,
particularly on the question of state formation and conflicts over
the nature of the social order, and by not only reviewing the 'root
causes' of refugee flows but suggesting how they
might be dealt with in the future. The combination of creative
thinking and realism could turn the work into a blueprint for
action if those who have the power to influence social policy take
the suggestions
seriously."--Peter I. Rose, Smith College
"A mature statement of a theory, and supporting cases, of the
relationships between causes of social conflict and the refugee
implications. The systemic treatment is pathbreaking. This work
will be one of those giants on whose shoulders others
build."--Charles B. Keely, Georgetown University
"It is an essential book for all scholars concerned with conflict
in the Third World. The book is highly relevant in comparative
politics, international relations, and security studies."--Ted
Gurr, University of Maryland, College Park
"Scholarly and at the same time sympathetic."--American Journal of
Sociology
"Escape from Violence is of interest to international relations
scholars because it analyzes the refugee crisis in the developing
world within a theoretical context. Zolberg and his associates
analyze the refugee crisis as part of a world system in which, as
they put it, "national societies persist but are internationalized
to a higher degree than ever before." As a result, violent
conflicts that create refugees must be seen as resulting from
external
as well as internal forces. Escape from Violence enables its
readers to discern a little-discussed and terrifying dimension of
transnational relations in contemporary world politics."--Robert O.
Keohane,
Harvard University
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