World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299093089 (1299093086)
Publish date: January 1st 2004
Publisher: Anchor Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Cultural,
Africa,
Economics,
Politics,
College,
Sociology,
Political Science,
World History,
Race
Chua links unfairness of ‘market dominant minorities’ and the rise in instability in the world through the increasing use of democracy and the ethnonationalism this generates among the less privileged majority. It is a fascinating angle, and in the examples given it seems to fit part of the explanat...
We read this in our college reading club several years ago. It's an excellent book to read along with Niall Ferguson's War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and Descent of the West and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Chua's basic premise is that ethnic eco...
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