Escape from violence : conflict and the refugee crisis in the developing world / Aristide R. Zolberg, Astri Suhrke, Sergio Aguayo.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-357).

Historical and Analytic Perspectives -- Who Is a Refugee? -- Why Definitions Matter -- Classic Refugees -- Religious Persecution -- Political Opposition -- National Minorities and the Stateless -- The Reinstatement of Barriers Against Exit -- Refugee Crises and the Emergence of an International Refugee Regime -- The First European Crisis -- The Second European Crisis -- Challenges from the Developing World -- Conclusion: In Fear of Violence -- Regional Studies -- Ethnic Conflict in the New States of Sub-Saharan Africa -- A Crisis in the Making -- The Weakest States, the Weakest Economies -- Weak States and Ethnic Conflict -- Ethnic Revolution and Counterrevolution in Rwanda and Burundi -- The Two Wars of the Two Sudans -- The Fragmentation of Chad -- Tyrannical Rule and Its Legacy in Uganda -- In the Long Shadow of South Africa -- Southern Africa as a Regional Complex -- The Struggle Against Settler Regimes -- Angola -- Mozambique -- Zimbabwe -- Namibia -- Structural Transformations Under Siege -- "Total Strategy" and "Linkage" -- Angola -- Mozambique -- Playing for Time in Namibia -- Separatism, Revolution, and War in Ethiopia and the Horn -- Competitive State-Formation in the Horn -- Concatenated Conflict -- Eritrean Separatism -- The Ethiopian Revolution -- Somalia and the Ogaden Conflict -- Eritrea After the Revolution -- Famine and Its Aftermath -- African Prospects -- The New States -- Ethiopia and the Horn -- Southern Africa -- Reorganization of Political Communities in South Asia -- Asia's Refugees: An Overview.