&BAD:quot;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.&BAD:quot;&BAD:mdash;Bruce Bueno de MesquitaSilver Professor of Politics at New York University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University