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Author Chua, Amy.

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

Imprint New York : Doubleday, c2003.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  303.6 C47w 2003    ---  Available
Description ix, 340 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : globalization and ethnic hatred -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
Subject International economic relations.
Globalization.
Ethnic relations.
ISBN 0385503024

 
    
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