9780385503020-0385503024-World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

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

ISBN-13: 9780385503020
ISBN-10: 0385503024
Edition: First Edition
Author: Amy Chua
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Doubleday
Format: Hardcover 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780385503020
ISBN-10: 0385503024
Edition: First Edition
Author: Amy Chua
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: Doubleday
Format: Hardcover 352 pages

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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (ISBN-13: 9780385503020 and ISBN-10: 0385503024), written by authors Amy Chua, was published by Doubleday in 2002. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic Conditions (Economics, Environmental Economics, International Business, Violence in Society, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic Conditions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Every few years, a book is published about America's role in the world and the changing contest of global affairs that gets everyone thinking in a new way. Amy Chua's WORLD ON FIRE will have exactly that kind of impact on the debate of how the world has changed in light of the events of last September.

Apostles of globalization, such as Thomas Friedman, believe that exporting free markets and democracy to other countries will increase peace and prosperity throughout the developing world; Amy Chua is the anti-Thomas Friedman. Her book wil 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: When global markets open, ethnic conflict worsens and politics turns ugly and violent.

Drawing on examples from around the world--from Africa and Asia to Russia and Latin America--Chua examines how free markets do not spread wealth evenly throughout the whole of these societies. Instead they produce a new class of extremely wealthy plutocrats--individuals as rich as nations. Almost always members of a minority group--Chinese in the Philippines, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America, Indians in East Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia--these "market-dominant minorities" have become targets of violent hatred. Adding democracy to this volatile mix unleashes supressed ethnic hatreds and brings to power ethnonationalist governments that pursue aggressive policies of confiscation and revenge. Chua further shows how individual countries are often viewed as dominant minorities, explaining the phenomena of ethnic resentment in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the rising tide of anti-American sentiment around the world. This more than anything accounts for the visceral hatred of Americans that has been expressed in recent acts of terrorism.

Bold and original, WORLD ON FIRE is a perceptive examination of the far-reaching effects of exporting capitalism with democracy and its potentially catastrophic results.

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