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

Chua, Amy,

World on fire : how exporting free market democracy breeds ethnic hatred and global instability / Amy Chua. - First Anchor Books edition. - ix, 346 pages ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-333) and index.

Introduction: Globalization and Ethnic Hatred -- The Economic Impact of Globalization -- Rubies and Rice Paddies: Chinese Minority Dominance in Southeast Asia -- Llama Fetuses, Latifundia, and La Blue Chip Numero Uno: "White" Wealth in Latin America -- The Seventh Oligarch: The Jewish Billionaires of Post-Communist Russia -- The "Ibo of Cameroon": Market-Dominant Minorities in Africa -- The Political Consequences of Globalization -- Backlash against Markets: Ethnically Targeted Seizures and Nationalizations -- Backlash against Democracy: Crony Capitalism and Minority Rule -- Backlash against Market-Dominant Minorities: Expulsions and Genocide -- Mixing Blood: Assimilation, Globalization, and the Case of Thailand -- Ethnonationalism and the West -- The Underside of Western Free Market Democracy: From Jim Crow to the Holocaust -- The Middle Eastern Cauldron: Israeli Jews as a Regional Market-Dominant Minority -- Why They Hate Us: America as a Global Market-Dominant Minority -- The Future of Free Market Democracy. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 2. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. 3. 9. 10. 11. 12.

0534522904 9780534522902 0385721862 9780385721868

2004268661


International economic relations
Globalization
Ethnic conflict

HF1359 / .C524 2004

303.6

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