Name: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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Author: Amy Chua
ISBN: 9780385721868

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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

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Physical Book

Publisher

Anchor

Author

Amy Chua

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0385721862

ISBN13

9780385721868

Synopsis "World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability "

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.

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