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Article: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Law Review
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- May 1, 2004
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WORLD ON FIRE: HOW EXPORTING FREE MARKET DEMOCRACY BREEDS ETHNIC HATRED AND GLOBAL INSTABILITY. By Amy Chua. New York: Doubleday. 2003. Pp. ix, 340. $26.
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, by Professor Amy Chua, (1) is an analytically complex narrative of contemporary ethnic violence in the current era of globalization. Although such violence has historical roots, according to Chua it has also been fueled by free-market forces and democratization. The book is a forceful and provocative indictment of the current U.S. policy of promoting and exporting markets and democracy to developing and formerly ...