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Further on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency: Refugees from Objectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

David P. Forsythe
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Amos Perlmutter has raised an interesting series of points in his commentary on my recent article concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). As I understand the crux of his argument, it is as follows. “From the outset UNRWA was a political organization” (p. 307). Despite this fact I have displayed a “low level of political judgment” (p. 306) which has led me to focus neither on the decisions rendered by UNRWA's commissioner-general nor on the future impact of UNRWA and the ways in which it can contribute to stability in the Middle East. Presumably these latter two types of analysis would be “high-level political judgments” (p. 308).

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Research Article
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International Organization , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , fall 1971 , pp. 950 - 952
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1971

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References

1 Perlmutter, Amos, “Patrons in the Babylonian Captivity of Clients: UNRWA and World Politics,” International Organization, Spring 1971 (Vol. 25, No. 2), pp. 306–308CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Forsythe, David P., “UNRWA, the Palestine Refugees, and World Politics: 1949–1969,” International Organization, Winter 1971 (Vol. 25, No. 1), pp. 26–45CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 I did this in my article; see ibid., p. 38, footnote 35. One could draw the same conclusion from Davis's, John recent book, The Evasive Peace: A Study of the Zionist-Arab Problem (London: John Murray, 1968)Google Scholar.

4 Stegenga, James A., “On Book Reviews,” PS, Spring 1971 (Vol. 4, No. 2), pp. 145–146CrossRefGoogle Scholar.