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6 Int'l J. Refugee L. 311 (1994)
The Powers and the Persecuted: The Refugee Problem and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR), 1938-1947; Refugees in the Cold War: Toward a New International Refugee Regime in the Early Postwar Era

handle is hein.journals/intjrl6 and id is 323 raw text is: Book Reviews 311 regional emergency relief and conflict resolution machinery. In particular, Loe- scher calls for the establishment of a basis for collective intervention in internal conflicts. Loescher's call for collective intervention in the internal affairs of States is outdated in the context of the failure of the international community in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia. The international community took so long to debate whether or not intervention was acceptable that it paid little attention to the fundamental issues of who would intervene and what would they do. Will collective humanitarian intervention in the future resemble what happened in Somalia? What will happen in the former Yugoslavia? When someone cries 'Do something,' one should ask who is the hidden object of the command and what is specifically being asked. It is all too easy to criticize Loescher on this point since his book was written at the time of a certain euphoria about a new world order where collective intervention was the fad of the day, just as regime theory had been the fad before. However, it is disappointing to see a scholar of Loescher's reputation falling into that trap. But even more disappointing is to see him undermine the important historical information he presents in the first part of the book with a rather emotional agenda in the second. Unfortunately, that is the price one pays for being overly ambitious. Daniel Warner Member of the Editorial Board The Powers and the Persecuted: The Refugee Problem and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR), 1938-1947. By Tommie Sj6berg. 1991. Lund University Press. Lund. ISSN 0076-1494. ISBN 91-7966-155-6. Chartwell-Bratt Ltd. Bromley. ISBN 0-86238-288-2. Refugees in the Cold War: Toward a New International Refugee Regime in the Early Postwar Era. By Kim Salomon. 1991. Lund University Press. Lund. ISSN 0076-1494. ISBN 91-7966-165-3. Chartwell-Bratt Ltd. Brom- ley. ISBN 0-86238-293-9. These two studies are part of a larger research project, Uprooted by the War: Refugees, Displaced Persons and Expellees in Europe in the Early Post- War Era, directed by Professor G6ran Rystad at the Department of History in the University of Lund. Each is characterized by solid and wide-ranging research, and presents a fascinating account of two periods leading up to the present system ofinternational refugee protection and assistance. No other study or series has so clearly delineated the evolution of refugee status and the development of the principles and organizations that are today's part-answers to the problem of coerced population displacements. Each in turn is happily free of the excessively structured assessments that have figured in recent, mostly legal, work with a supposedly historical focus. The studies dovetail well. Sjbberg covers the years 1938-1947, and Salomon 1945-1951. Together, they provide a comprehensive account of a succession of agencies, from the Inter-governmental Committee for Refugees (IGCR), set up in Evian in 1938, through the war-time United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation

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