"Singer and Wildavsky′s distinction between a zone of peace and a zone of turmoil resonates as a crisp and straightforward distinction that possesses much explanatory power and is embedded in a deep political insight. That distinction is, in my opinion, destined to become the way we think of the new world order. I know of no recent book that competes with this one for its scope and vision combined with nontechnical analysis."

--Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Silver Professor of Politics at New York University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University