World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, (Paperback)

from mrtall

Amy Chua has identified a wedge issue that's been previously under-analysed, if not unnoticed, and has driven in that wedge about as far as it will go. The issue? The fact, that in so many countries, especially developing ones, small ethnic minority groups controls a large proportions of those co...

from jcvogan1

A very interesting thesis about how economically dominant ethnic minorities are often the target of the majority in emerging democracies.

from dick_pountain

When the Cold War ended in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, most Western political thinkers assumed that democracy and free markets had triumped, and that the future could only mean exporting these virtues to those 'developing world' countries that lack one or both of them. However as Amy C...

from mrtall

Amy Chua has identified a wedge issue that's been previously under-analysed, if not unnoticed, and has driven in that wedge about as far as it will go. The issue? The fact, that in so many countries, especially developing ones, small ethnic minority groups controls a large proportions of those co...

from jcvogan1

A very interesting thesis about how economically dominant ethnic minorities are often the target of the majority in emerging democracies.