World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred & Global Instability

Name: World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred & Global Instability
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By Amy Chua

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Amy Chua's remarkable and provocative book explores the tensions of the post-Cold War globalising world. As global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and democracy in developing nations can turn ugly and violent. Chua shows how free markets have concentrated disproportionate, often spectacular wealth in the hands of resented ethnic minorities - 'market-dominant minorities'. Adding democracy to this volatile mix can unleash suppressed ethnic hatred and bring to power 'ethno-nationalist' governments that pursue aggressive policies of confiscation and revenge. Chua also shows how individual countries may also be viewed as market-dominant minorities, a fact that may help to explain the rising tide of anti-American sentiment around the world and the visceral hatred of Americans expressed in recent acts of terrorism. Chua is not an anti-globalist. But she presciently warns that, far from making the world a better and safer place, democracy and capitalism - at least in the raw, unrestrained form in which they are currently being exported - are intensifying ethnic resentment and global violence, with potentially catastrophic results.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

368

Release Date:

2004-07-01

Publication Date:

2004-07-01

Publisher:

Arrow

Languages:

Published: English, Original: English

ISBN10:

0099455048

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Minimum Reading Age:

0

Weight:

255 g

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