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World on fire : how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability / Amy Chua.

Lippincott Library HF1359 .C524 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chua, Amy.
Contributor:
Charles H. Maxson Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
International economic relations.
Globalization.
Ethnic conflict.
Physical Description:
ix, 340 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Doubleday, 2003.
Summary:
Apostles of globalization, such as Thomas Friedman, believe that exporting free markets and democracy to other countries will increase peace and prosperity throughout the world; Chua is the anti-Friedman. Her book will be a dash of cold water in the face of globalists, techno-utopians, and liberal triumphalists as she shows that just the opposite has happened.
Contents:
Introduction: Globalization and Ethnic Hatred 1
Part 1 The Economic Impact of Globalization
1 Rubies and Rice Paddies: Chinese Minority Dominance in Southeast Asia 23
2 Llama Fetuses, Latifundia, and La Blue Chip Numero Uno: "White" Wealth in Latin America 49
3 The Seventh Oligarch: The Jewish Billionaires of Post-Communist Russia 77
4 The "Ibo of Cameroon": Market-Dominant Minorities in Africa 95
Part 2 The Political Consequences of Globalization
5 Backlash against Markets: Ethnically Targeted Seizures and Nationalizations 127
6 Backlash against Democracy: Crony Capitalism and Minority Rule 147
7 Backlash against Market-Dominant Minorities: Expulsions and Genocide 163
8 Mixing Blood: Assimilation, Globalization, and the Case of Thailand 177
Part 3 Ethnonationalism and the West
9 The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy: From Jim Crow to the Holocaust 189
10 The Middle Eastern Cauldron: Israeli Jews as a Regional Market-Dominant Minority 211
11 Why They Hate Us: America as a Global Market-Dominant Minority 229
12 The Future of Free Market Democracy 259.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-327) and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.
ISBN:
0385503024
OCLC:
49750842

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